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Italian's Last-Minute Mistress
Italian's Last-Minute Mistress is a fake relationship, Italian billionaire romance by Tara Pammi.
Faking the fire…
…but will they get burned?
A heart-surgery survivor, Sameera Fischer is determined to live life on her terms, starting with confronting her ex in Lake Como. Except he’s already engaged to another! Even more shocking? Finding herself on the arm of his arrogantly gorgeous older brother, Alessandro Ricci…
To avoid family scandal, ruthless CEO Alessandro claims the alluring Sam as his mistress. But pretending their chemistry is just for show proves impossible as Sam digs beneath his steely armor. And as Alessandro watches her step into her own sensuality, their insatiable hunger is unleashed…
From Harlequin Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
Faking the fire…
…but will they get burned?
A heart-surgery survivor, Sameera Fischer is determined to live life on her terms, starting with confronting her ex in Lake Como. Except he’s already engaged to another! Even more shocking? Finding herself on the arm of his arrogantly gorgeous older brother, Alessandro Ricci…
To avoid family scandal, ruthless CEO Alessandro claims the alluring Sam as his mistress. But pretending their chemistry is just for show proves impossible as Sam digs beneath his steely armor. And as Alessandro watches her step into her own sensuality, their insatiable hunger is unleashed…
From Harlequin Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published March 31, 2026
About the author
Tara Pammi
555 books203 followersTara Pammi can't remember a moment when she wasn't lost in a book, especially a romance which, for a teenager, was much more exciting than mathematics textbook. Before long, she was hiding romance novels within bigger textbooks, smuggling them into the home through her unsuspecting younger cousin’s school bag, and cycling more than a few miles to her favorite library to borrow more.
Through numerous ‘true’ loves :-) and traveling thousands of miles from family and friends, her attachment to books and especially romance novels stayed constant.
One fine day, toiling away as a grad student in a basement lab, Tara started typing the beginning of a story instead of her thesis. But it wasn’t until years later, encouraged by her real life hero, Tara realized what she truly wanted to do was to write.
Tara lives in Texas with her real life hero and her two little girls. When she isn't writing or reading, Tara can be found failing in the kitchen, watching TV or making resolutions to exercise more, or even a little.
Through numerous ‘true’ loves :-) and traveling thousands of miles from family and friends, her attachment to books and especially romance novels stayed constant.
One fine day, toiling away as a grad student in a basement lab, Tara started typing the beginning of a story instead of her thesis. But it wasn’t until years later, encouraged by her real life hero, Tara realized what she truly wanted to do was to write.
Tara lives in Texas with her real life hero and her two little girls. When she isn't writing or reading, Tara can be found failing in the kitchen, watching TV or making resolutions to exercise more, or even a little.
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July 1, 2026
Loved this one!
I mentioned that I’ve been picking up Harlequin Presents, and one recent release that I had the pleasure of reading an ARC for, and also bought my own paperback copy of, is by Tara Pammi.
There are several quotes I jotted down that gave me historical romance vibes for sure, as so many of these alpha heroes share many similarities with the histrom hero archetypes.
I also really enjoyed the way that the HEA is childfree and the way that both main characters' ages and experiences with health concerns and grief shaped the reality of what a future looks like, and that was explored in a short book with depth. I was worried that trauma would be a lot to read for me based on my own experiences with losing my sister to cancer and my dad to pulmonary fibrosis within the past five years, but the story was handled with care and still joyful even with the trauma to another character happening within real time of the story timeline.
He had hated others' happiness with a violent resentment, like a wounded feral animal. He'd hated pity and concern as if they were afraid for him and of him.
He wanted to taste the magic of that smile on her lips, breathe it in. Steal the very real joy in it. A fierce longing stabbed through him that he was very much alive. He wanted her, in whatever capacity or form he could have her.
There were a lot of lines I really loved and noted down just for the writing and imagery too.
a jawline that she could sharpen her mother's knives on
Together, his features created an impression of a darkly masculine sensuousness that made her keenly aware of her own skin. Of the wild beat of her heart. Of her pulse racing madly all over her body. Breath rushed into her lungs in a wave.
Something in her wanted to test his steely control.
Sam felt every bit of it. Felt the hunger and heat rise in him and envelop her.
The last of the sun's rays were dancing over the lake.
Sam began to feel like a hapless heroine in a gothic novel, creeping along its marble-tiled hallways.
Just sheet after endless sheet of gray falling over the lake, blurring the view into something shapeless and cold.
And my favorite quotes near the end:
He wanted to love her for the rest of his life and that meant being the bravest version of himself. For the woman he loved had the most courageous heart, and he wanted to be its equal.
Sam knew she had found her grand adventure and her resting place all in one man.
I mentioned that I’ve been picking up Harlequin Presents, and one recent release that I had the pleasure of reading an ARC for, and also bought my own paperback copy of, is by Tara Pammi.
There are several quotes I jotted down that gave me historical romance vibes for sure, as so many of these alpha heroes share many similarities with the histrom hero archetypes.
I also really enjoyed the way that the HEA is childfree and the way that both main characters' ages and experiences with health concerns and grief shaped the reality of what a future looks like, and that was explored in a short book with depth. I was worried that trauma would be a lot to read for me based on my own experiences with losing my sister to cancer and my dad to pulmonary fibrosis within the past five years, but the story was handled with care and still joyful even with the trauma to another character happening within real time of the story timeline.
He had hated others' happiness with a violent resentment, like a wounded feral animal. He'd hated pity and concern as if they were afraid for him and of him.
He wanted to taste the magic of that smile on her lips, breathe it in. Steal the very real joy in it. A fierce longing stabbed through him that he was very much alive. He wanted her, in whatever capacity or form he could have her.
There were a lot of lines I really loved and noted down just for the writing and imagery too.
a jawline that she could sharpen her mother's knives on
Together, his features created an impression of a darkly masculine sensuousness that made her keenly aware of her own skin. Of the wild beat of her heart. Of her pulse racing madly all over her body. Breath rushed into her lungs in a wave.
Something in her wanted to test his steely control.
Sam felt every bit of it. Felt the hunger and heat rise in him and envelop her.
The last of the sun's rays were dancing over the lake.
Sam began to feel like a hapless heroine in a gothic novel, creeping along its marble-tiled hallways.
Just sheet after endless sheet of gray falling over the lake, blurring the view into something shapeless and cold.
And my favorite quotes near the end:
He wanted to love her for the rest of his life and that meant being the bravest version of himself. For the woman he loved had the most courageous heart, and he wanted to be its equal.
Sam knew she had found her grand adventure and her resting place all in one man.
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