
When Lucy’s long-planned romantic vacation turns solo, she arrives in Florence ready for art, gelato, and a much-needed reset. What she doesn’t expect is the hotel manager’s switcheroo on her room—or the storm-eyed stranger who bulldozes her into a swap, then disappears as if kindness and rudeness can share the same sentence. That stranger is George Emerson: ex-military, quietly loaded, and allergic to small talk and tact. He writes one-line poems, ogles Caravaggios, and rescues people without making a speech about it. He’s also, it turns out, the key to a view—across the Arno and into Lucy’s own life. Set under the Tuscan sun and crashing waves of the Hamptons, My Billionaire Grump is a sparkling grumpy-sunshine rom-com about two people who keep colliding in all the wrong ways until they start choosing each other in all the right ones. It’s about music that frees you, art that confronts you, and the costly, beautiful courage to trust love again.