Okay, so the author in her note to readers at the beginning of the story reveals how Nic is, or was, a Makricosta. This is his half-sister's story, Adara Makricosta. And the remaining two books in this series are about his half-brothers, Theo and Demitri. Ooo...what family dynamics! As the author says, there is so little to go on in the first book about more of Nic's mother's side of the family that I never could've imagined how he was related to this series.

Gideon Vozaras is following his wife, and they're in Greece now, all the way from Britain. He suspects her of having an affair (don't they all!). He has a reason though, she lied to him about visiting her mother. And instead, she was in Greece instead of Chatham. Both Gideon and Adara think the other is cheating. His PA gives Adara the impression that she's in dalliance with her husband. And with the secrets that they kept about their past from each other as well as their current problems, it didn't help their cause. She wants a divorce, after suffering yet another miscarriage and not telling him. Because, they don't communicate. That was one of the conditions of their self-arranged marriage. A peculiar arrangement, indeed! He can't afford to go through with a divorce, especially with the merger of her hotel chain and his luxury cruise ship business so close. Because divorce meant the skeletons in his cupboard would come out, and he had a fair share of them.

Suffering from depression, anxiety, and rejection, constantly thinking about Gideon and his PA, Adara has come in search of her elder brother, Nic. She wonders why Nic hasn't reached out all these years. Neither to her nor her younger brothers.

I am so, so, so happy that this story started with Nic and Adara! A beautiful reunion between the siblings which I imagined ever since Nic mentioned that scene in the first book to Ro while cuddling her. So sweet! Though the actual reunion comes quite late in the book because he's not at his home when Adara goes to meet with him.

Adara, being the eldest in a family of three siblings with an abusive father, it couldn't have been easy for her. All that bottled up emotion, the neglect and the fear, together with her present emotional state of a number of miscarriages.

It was really cute to see Nic trying to hurry up and finish his business so that he can be with Adara asap. And also humorous to see Gideon worry after realising who Nic was! Scared of the big brother, eh?

I'll give a spoiler here. When they very sweetly eat oranges half and a half and kiss in the process, I wonder where do the seeds go? Haha! Totally turned a sexy scene into a hilarious one in my head. What to do... I'm reading Americanah alongside and read that in America they have only the seedless oranges. And since I never had them, it felt strange reading this.

It was nice to meet Nic, Rowan and Evie. Especially Evie's antics, a baby being a baby is always cute. And among all of them, it's their mother, Ellice, who's been dealt the worst hand. First kept away from her eldest son and then cancer chipping away her life when finally she's free from her horrible husband. There is so much bitterness in her that she couldn't even be happy for her own children. I felt equally angry at her and sorry for her. Not that Gideon had it any better. Delphi Parnassus, his mother, also has a sad story. Knowing about his childhood was sad, but his and Adara's confrontation was heartbreaking. There is so much pain all around, in all the character's lives. Theo, the next brother, whose story is in the next book, stars here too. Instead it a few years back though can't seem to recall it.

The epilogue sums it up nicely and naming their baby Androu is the best thing there was. This one's a keeper.

P.S. The name of this one is perfect. Because Gideon and Adara's marriage is indeed so much more than a convenient one and it questions the convenience of it...

On a cheeky note, they could have given a cover for this like the first book, just that instead of strawberry, there should've been an orange.