cover image I Only Want to Be with You

I Only Want to Be with You

Lisa Norato, . . Five Star, $26.95 (231pp) ISBN 978-1-59414-611-4

Marcella Tartaglia is a diligent, ambitious young associate at Gracious Living magazine with top-of-the-masthead dreams. Sent on assignment to England to cover the wedding of the magazine's departing senior editor, Marcella has her heart set on filling the editor's position. Then she meets William Stafford, a “movie star” handsome, motorcycle-riding “bad boy” who also happens to be “the Honorable William John Anthony Grafton Stafford, son of Lord Wiltshire, the Eighteenth Viscount of Wiltshire” and a vicar as dedicated to his congregation as she is to her career. Not one for a weekend fling, William invites her to share his world permanently. Unsure of whether she is cut out to be a vicar's wife, Marcella returns to New York. But can she immerse herself in work so much that she forgets about William? Can any other man hold a candle to the smoldering hunk she left in the English countryside? Norato's debut is sweet and sincere, a defanged Prada by way of a more innocent Bridget Jones . (Dec.)