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Book: Shut Up & Kiss Me by Carolyn Hughey

categories: Book, Italian, Restaurant, Sisters, Humor, Family, Family Fest, Interferring Mamas, Humorous Romance

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Carolyn Hughey a.k.a. K. T. Roberts

about this book: Ellana Licari is a young, ambitious woman carving out an independent existence in New Jersey when she receives an urgent summons from her mother. It seems that Ellana has had a super-crush on Nick Soriano, whom she's known since childhood, but who still thinks of and treats her like his sister.

Once Nick looks like he's getting serious with a gorgeous redhead, Mama Licari, along with Nick's mom, decides it's time to pull out all the stops and launch an interference campaign to move Ellana to the head of the line and convince Nick he's making a huge mistake. This requires Ellana moving back to NYC and shaking up the status quo in Nick's life.

A primary piece of strategy involves an attempt to make Nick jealous and finally cause him to look at Ellana in a different way. With the assistance of Giovanni Cavallini, a gorgeous hunk of humanity, Ellana asserts herself, and a most interesting set of circumstances develops, including a life-altering test she never saw coming.