Review: Very charming
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2013
The book, is a real Cinderella-ish  story.  Anne Marie from the US a quiet librarian who's husband of 20 years has left her for a woman half his age decides to fulfill her dream of traveling to Italy.  There she meets Marco an intriguing gorgeous man who attaches himself to her claiming he is a travel agent.  He makes her blood rise and her knees shake just by looking at her.  Unbeknownst to her he works for the government and is tracking an invaluable stolen diamond and believes she is the one who has it.  He knows she is meeting an old rival of his who went to high school in the US with her who is a wealthy thief.  He sticks by her side intending to be there for the exchange between them and arrest both of them.  But sparks start to fly between them and every minute they are together their feelings for each other grow deeper.  The story takes them traveling to meet his grandmother, to spending time in quaint small towns crushing grapes for wine, to picnics in a field making love for the first time.  He knows deep down she is not as he suspects her to be and struggles to figure out the who the criminals really are.  In the end the real criminals are caught, she is devastated finding out he was using her and thought her to be a thief and heads back home.  Marco heads her off, professes he is madly in live with her, asks her to forgive him and to marry him, gives her a diamond and confesses he is very wealthy.  Cinderella gets her prince.