This is a romance that is much more better of what you can think reading the blurb. The blurb describes the story of a mail order bride very willing to acclompish the kinky desires of his new husband; so you can buy it thinking to read a dirty novel about wild sex in bed and not only... and maybe I bought it for this reason :-)

Instead this is a sweet tale about a lonely widow, Giovanni, John, with a big heart and a big body. He has had an hard life, and you can think that also is behaviour is hard, but instead he is only worried to not be good enough for his new wife.

Mariana is sent to John from Italy to take the places of her older sister, died few weeks after her marriage with John. She is a little thing with a strong attitude and a gentle soul. John is not an handsome man, he is tough and has a ugly scar on the face, but Mariana can see behind, sees the tender man. And also she can feel him, by night: John is always caring and makes love to her, not only sex.

John is a very passionate man, and makes love to Mariana in every way an nineteen century man could think (if he hasn't read the Kamasutra), but always with the thought to not displeasure Mariana.

Indeed this romance is very "traditional", like an Historical Harlequin with a little more sex.

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