The hero is a doctor. He is called to the scene when the heroine's daughter has a medical emergency. They fight, the heroine has a fear of doctor's incompetency. Ten years later, they meet again when the heroine comes to Venice to advocate patient rights at the hero's hospital.
They fall on each other and have sex... twice... before they had even kissed once. The sex is awkward and clumsy in a way, the reader is not connected to what's happening. It's as if the hands are placed blindly on each other with no intent about where they land, no focus on pleasing their lover, just a race towards orgasm. I'm a little confused by that, it seems so cold. The distance between them made their relationship more sex than romance though, which isn't my preference. The heroine tells the hero this sort of sex makes her feel dirty, and this shocks the hero, he didn't realize this was what he was doing. He sets about wooing her, and his idea of wooing is "no sex" which just frustrates the heroine and doesn't last long. The hero is set on making love with her, not having sex. Her dead ex-husband is a temporary obstacle for them.
One awkward thing in this book is that the daughter encourages the hero to have a relationship with her mom, before the hero even wants more than sex. I'm a little confused at why the heroine wanted sex too, since the heroine hadn't had sex for ten years: she all of a sudden grew appetites and had no problem leaping into cold-hearted, sophisticated sex?
Rating: 3/5 stars, there were some plot/characterization holes, but the book was still an entertaining read, it was a journey for the hero/heroine.
