Laurent likes to believe that love is not for everyone - it's simply just for the lucky. And for as long as he can remember, he's had the rottenest luck of all. Lost his mother due to a car crash at three years old, witnessed his brother sent to prison at seventeen for the trading of millions worth of drugs, and discovering at twenty-five that his fiancée had been cheating on him with her boss. Now at thirty, he's sworn off love, convinced that bachelorhood is better than getting burned a second time. But his father won't let his favorite son be without a partner, and so, he persuades him to go out with his childhood friend's eldest daughter - Anna. After her confession to her best friend goes wrong, twenty-eight-year-old Vera drinks to make herself feel better. And when alcohol didn't do the trick, she sets out to her favorite restaurant, hoping her comfort food will magically ease her heartbreak. Upon her arrival, she noticed a lone brooding man, seemingly annoyed as he waited for someone. Fueled by alcohol and self-deprecation, she approaches him and sits on his table. He calls her Anna. Who the fuck is that, even? But fine, she can be Anna - just for the night. *** Monteverde Series, Book 6 All rights reserved.