Swept from her humdrum life in Southern California to the breathtaking backdrop of Italy, 32 year-old Jessica Dodd must tread the perilous waters of dealing with her lying fiancé, a rekindled attraction to an estranged husband, and the inconvenience of being kidnapped.

Big Trouble in Little Italy is book one in Nicole Sharp’s Simply Trouble series. The Barn Owl currently carries all four books in the Simply Trouble series, as well as three of Nicole’s other books, Surviving Thirty, La Bella Luna, and Let it Snow.

Legend has it that Nicole Sharp was born to hippies during an ice storm in Stone Mountain, Georgia. While confirmation of said events cannot be agreed upon, one fact is for certain, it was a Tuesday.

These days, Nicole swigs cappuccinos the way a dehydrated sailor with scurvy would whiskey, as she writes about Italy, love, coffee and the quirky adventures of fearless women. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with no houseplants and three pink stovetop espresso makers.