**A passionate story of love and hope that has "everything you want in a novelβflawed, complicated characters, lush descriptions, breathtaking plot, and a fierce beating heart" (Tayari Jones, *New York Times* bestselling author of *An American Marriage*).** In a small town in Puerto Rico, Felicida
If I Bring You Roses
β Scribed by Marisel Vera
- Book ID
- 112051051
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 381 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780446585569
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"I believe in Spirits," Felicidad said. "I believe in making love," said AnΓbal.
In a small town in Puerto Rico, Felicidad Hidalgo spends her days serving busybodies in her aunt's bakery, and her nights dreaming of home. Closing her eyes she can almost hear the sweet songs of tree frogs, reminding her of the mountain village of her childhood, and the family she hasn't seen in nearly a decade. Her new life in town has delivered her from poverty, but not from loneliness-until the afternoon AnΓbal walks through the door. AnΓbal Acevedo is not in need of a wife, but when he meets Felicidad while visiting family, he is stunned by the power of his attraction. Almost before he realizes what's happening, he has taken the girl into his bed and into his home-in Chicago. Yet soon the young lovers discover that married life is anything but idyllic. Can they find the courage to overcome the obstacles and temptations of their new world and rediscover the...
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