Sweet Temptation

In Venice, the canals glow under lantern light, every corner hiding secrets. For Isabella, an art student chasing inspiration, the city feels alive with promise. She doesn’t expect her search to lead into a small gelateria tucked inside centuries-old walls or to Matteo Rossi, its owner, whose quiet discipline unsettles her more than she wants to admit.

Matteo lives by precision, by rules carved from tradition. Isabella lives by color and impulse, her sketchbook spilling across counters and napkins. Their clash is immediate. And magnetic.

Behind the counter, their days tangle together skin brushing by accident, arguments whispered over melting gelato, the heady pull of flavors crafted in silence. But when Isabella’s drawings catch the eye of a rival shop, betrayal threatens to crack the fragile bond forming between them. Ambition and loyalty collide, leaving both with choices that cut close to the heart.

In a city that seduces with every glance, will they risk stepping into sweetness or retreat into solitude?

Love, like gelato, melts fast in the heat of Venice. What lingers can change everything.

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Step into this story and discover how it joins the larger feast of passion that defines the Feast of Hearts series.

Across kitchens, markets, and festivals worldwide, passion simmers just beneath the surface. Feast of Hearts: World Food Day Romances brings together steamy standalone love stories where flavor meets desire. From candlelit dinners in Paris to spice-drenched nights in Mumbai, each tale blends the richness of food with the heat of attraction. Every story serves its own course sweet, fiery, forbidden yet all promise the same decadent escape. These aren’t just stories of hunger satisfied, but of hearts claimed and love found in the most delicious places.

Will you taste the fire where food and desire collide?