Thank you, Leonor, for an eARC copy of the book. I started purchasing the books when Leonor releases the paperback, she puts them up the same day as her ARCs go out and I run and buy it to go with my ritual post completion of the book. I always hug it to my chest, take a deep breath in pure joy and happiness.

Max and Eva are in Vegas and run into one another and they make an agreement to get married. Both wake up not remembering what had happened and go their separate ways, until Max realizes they are married and shows up in Laguna Beach for his wife. Laguna Beach is a small town that was a community primarily for the Latine community, but it needs to be revitalized. Max comes from a billionaire family, and he wants to take the company in a different direction that does not exploit people, but his father is not on board with that. Eva needs the money from the agreed marriage to help with the investment of the town and bring in stability to her café business.

Leonor has this way of making me fall for a new couple so much that they become my new favorite couple. Max is this flirty, cheeky, charmer of a man who loves his suits and likes to keep this persona up a bit for his protection. He is Chilean and has a close group of friends that make you just want to be part of the crew. Eva, has the town, her parents immediately left when she was 18 and they didn’t raise her to be connected to her Latine culture. She has found family within the town and that is why it is so important to her. She is more reserved, cautious and careful with her heart. Eva is fat and it is body positive, fat neutral.

I LOVED their friendship as they got accustomed to their marriage. This is a SLOW BURN and (cue fans) that pays off when it heats up!

I also cried seeing the thank you note Leonor wrote and having my name in it. I adore her with all my heart, and I am so happy to see more and more people pick up her cozy romances that center Latine characters that are fat. They mean the world to me.