Winner of the 2025 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD for BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards FINALIST in the Humor Category
Winner of the 2024 Maxy Silver Award in the Literary and Humor category
Winner of the 2024 Firebird Book Award for Best Romantic Comedy
“Madcap Serenade” is a wild musical coming-of-age journey about plunging into a romantic Italian adventure that’s being described as “‘Sleepless in Seattle’ by way of John Hughes!”
Eli, a precocious 16-year-old social misfit living on Long Island in August 1979, cons his way into a professional boys’ choir’s Italian and Vatican tour so he can discover his missing father’s legacy. But when he meets his dream girl, Jane, and finds himself connected to an intricate murder plot involving a legendary drug, he must decide if singing for the Pope is worth losing his family and first love.
Jane, a rebellious 16-year-old American girl, is desperate to get back in favor with her school friends after accidentally calling a narc on them. When she is sent to a Roman convent for smuggling erotic novels, she realizes she must grow up fast if she’s going to escape the nuns, solve her family’s mystery involving a mythical drug, keep clear of the authorities, and declare her love for Eli.
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