This is an incredibly beautiful story with very interesting characters, an exotic location and a good insight in Green and Fairtraide issues.
The story takes place mostly in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest, exciting and unusual location. The heroine is a young, naive but strong and idealistic English rose. The hero is a cynic, ruthless and cold Brazilian billionaire.
Rafael is a man committed to preserve the Brazilian rainforest and its inhabitants. Grace owns a coffee chain, Cafe Brazil, which is supplied in coffee by a local fazenda. Rafael financed Grace's chain of coffee shops because he thought it would help the local farmers. But after a few years the fazenda is on the verge of financial ruin because Cafe Brazil is paying a ridiculously low price for the coffee. Rafael decides then to withdraw his loan.
But Grace cannot accept it without a fight! He is renowned for being very bad, without mercy, a real devil in business. He is also very secret; he likes his privacy and preserves that by living in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. That is enough to discourage senior businessmen, but not Grace. Not because she is tougher than everybody, but because she is an idealistic and trusting girl, who strongly believes there is good in every human being, no matter what is said about them. She obtains an appointment of 10 minutes with him, and flies courageously in the dangerous forest to meet the most dangerous wolf in his lair!
When he first sees her, he is overwhelmed by a surge of masculine lust so intense that it is painful. When she first sees him, she forgets everything and suddenly feels lethargic. The atmosphere between them is clearly electrically charged. He wants to teach her a lesson and plans to journey with her in the forest to introduce her to the poor farmers she is underpaying with no care for the consequences. She is happy to stay, that gives her more than 10 minutes to convince him to extend his loan. A hot romance is about to start in the heart of the rainforest. The heart of the wolf is about to be stolen by the innocence of the English rose.
Grace and Rafael story was deeply moving. The two of them are damaged. Rafael has been abandoned as a child, cheated into marriage by a money-grabbing ex-wife, and constantly chased for his money by gold-diggers. Now he believes that all women are only interested in his money and the good sex he can give. That works for him, since those are the only things he has to offer. His heart, if he has one, is safely guarded. Grace is dyslexic; she was considered stupid at school and has spent all her life trying to prove to everybody that she is worth something. Now though an adult, in the inside she is still a child who tries to gain her father's love. But all her past and current disappointments cannot stop her from believing in the goodness of the human beings and she still has a lot of love to give.
Once she poured her love and trust into Rafael, he had no chance at all but to love her in return. It is an encouragement to all the people who have been damaged by life to never give up on their dreams, on love and happiness. If life is a gamble, better gamble for the best, hum? Not only is it a wonderful love story, but it also gives a good life's lesson. 6 stars and a keeper!
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