I’ll Look For You, Everywhere by Cameron Capello
Sometimes what you want in a debut novel is a brand new dose of sun-bathed romance, something to galvanise your appetite for love lit. And sometimes what you want in a debut is the chance to get to know more of a personality you already love and follow. And, in I’ll Look for You, Everywhere we have both. Because this is a gorgeous, spicy tale of rekindled love set in an impossibly beautiful Italian village – starring two impossibly beautiful protagonists, of course – and it is by an author also known as @chamberofsecretbooks. Cameron Capello has a major following on TikTok – and if you’ve seen any of her vids, you’ll know exactly the sort of thing she finds hot… and the kind of intoxicating scenes that have made it into her book. If you like a troubled bad boy with more confidence than could be good for him and a shy girl with a complicated family, if asking “who made you like this?” and “how could you ever forgive that?!” is your cup of tea… then I’ll Look for You, Everywhere is absolutely for you.
It’s taken some work, but Magdalen has finally made the kind of life for herself that she thinks might be right. She’s just finished her first year at Oxford University and is starting to feel as though she’s left the traumas of her past behind – if not for good, then at least for the time being. But perhaps her past is not so distant after all. With the arrival of a wedding invitation, which she tries to ignore (no such luck there), it seems that she will be returning to her hometown in Italy, Chivasso, sooner than she had expected. It is her sister, after all. And her family, with all their complicated baggage is not the only thing waiting for her there. There’s Theo too.
Theo and Magdalen haven’t seen each other since they were kids. Seven years ago, Theo abruptly left Chivasso for a new life in Connecticut – a move that left many puzzled. He had been the golden boy of Chivasso: his smarts, his swagger and his looks bewitched just about everyone who laid eyes on him. He never told anyone why he so suddenly severed all ties and left with scarcely a word. Now he too has been called back to the idyllic, meandering pathways and blazing golden sun of his hometown.
Instantly, the pair recognise that a lot has changed. Perhaps too much. And as the tension grows between them and they each come to suspect that the other is hiding more than they might ever reveal, they become entangled in an intense game of push and pull that could culminate in either a romance that could linger beyond this sweltering summer or the emotional ruin of them both.
Full of the kinds of doub-filled internal monologues that many of us will recognise all too well – not to mention the flaws, the passions and the messy family dynamics and complicated secrets – I’ll Look for You, Everywhere drips with as much sexual tension as it does with atmospheric heat.