On a delayed overnight train from Paris to Rome, Mara meets a stranger who tells her, after the second glass of wine, that he is six weeks into being engaged to someone else.They share two hours, a kiss in the dining car, and a sunrise. They part without exchanging names.Three weeks later, he walks into the small Roman publishing house where Mara has been a translator for four years. He is the new creative director. He is wearing the same coat. He is still engaged.T...

At thirty-two, June Hale walks out of a life she has built on schedule. She quits the job. Sells the apartment. Ends the relationship she was supposed to keep. And she goes, with one suitcase and one rule, to a borrowed villa above the sea on the Amalfi coast.The rule is simple. For the next ninety days, she says yes.To swimming in the cold sea at midnight. To strangers. To the second-cheapest white wine. To picking lemons in a garden behind a house that isn't hers. To Nico...