Nothing Left to Perform

Nothing Left to Perform

"Pero es joven. Y está sola." But she is young. And she is alone.

She wasn't meant to hear that.

Vivienne Caldwell arrived at Villa Valenti the way she does everything: beautifully, expensively, and one step ahead of a London scandal. A canceled engagement. A mother with a plan. A suitcase full of outfits for a woman she isn't sure exists.

Tomás Reyes has spent twenty years being invisible in grand hotels, and he can spot a performance from across a courtyard. He gives her the smaller room. He tells her the truth. He does not applaud.

Then one reckless walk into the hills ends with a storm, an injury, and the two of them in a shepherd's hut - where, for the first time in her life, a man does not punish her, flatter her, or ask her to be anyone.

London wants her back - polished, engaged, profitable. But somewhere between the linen cupboard and the tomatoes cut by hand, Vivi is starting to wonder who she'd be if no one was watching.

And whether the quiet man who refuses to perform could ever want the woman underneath the act.

Book 2 in The Villa Valenti Series.