My twelfth read by [a:Michelle Reid|81218|Michelle Reid|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1260580903p2/81218.jpg], the story opens on an agitated Caroline Newbury, anxiously waiting for her father to get back to their room from his evening stroll. Putting up at a hotel in Puerto Banús in Marbella, where she had faced humiliation and suffered a broken heart seven years ago at the hands of one Luiz Vazquez. The same one who now owned the hotel they were staying in, which means we are in for one hell of a revengeful, angtsy ride.

Luiz has a dirty proposition to let go of all her father's debts, that they continue from where they left off seven years ago. And that he marry her. Though Caroline agrees to everything, for her gambler of a father, she couldn't not forget Luiz's betrayal all those years ago.

There is one surprise after another in this second chance story. Where earlier it was mostly the two of them, with the exception of her father, there is now Luiz's big Spanish family, a family who loves to hate him. But there's another shocker in store, Luiz's father's diary, which the padre of the local church hands over to Caroline. And their little hidey-hole was so charming, their secret place. And quite thrilling at the end. Though the reality of Luiz's family was really sad, what happened all those years ago.

P.S. This seems to be becoming a popular place in Harlequin books. I remember reading [b:The Playboy of Puerto Banús|17738179|The Playboy of Puerto Banús|Carol Marinelli|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1372089719s/17738179.jpg|24817679] by [a:Carol Marinelli|4990|Carol Marinelli|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1356217416p2/4990.jpg], and that name instantly clicked.