Backpacking through Europe changed Clara's future in ways she couldn't imagine... Clara With Vico being nothing but a fond memory, one I'm reminded of daily due to our son being his spitting image, my trip to Italy is shrouded by what could have been. If only Vico had reached out once I'd returned home, maybe we could have been a family. But I must have been just another woman passing through to him. Vico I couldn't understand why Clara never responded to my letters. After a year of writing to her, I gave up, assuming she wasn't as interested as I'd believed her to be on that night we shared beneath the stars. But now my mother has passed, the vineyard is falling down around me and I'm unsure where to turn. I go to the beach, our beach, where fate seems to have a plan... This is a safe steamy instalove with no cliffhangers, no cheating and a HEA. It can be read as a standalone or as part of the Reckless series.