For quiet accountant Olivia Carter, the fortune she inherits from her late mother’s secret first husband is life-changing. Unaware of her mother’s ties to Romanian fast-food mogul Andrei Rusu, Olivia is baffled when she discovers the billionaire has left everything to her instead of to his own penniless sister in Romania.
Venturing to Europe to meet with the neglected branch of the Rusu family, Olivia is determined to make things right.
But from the moment Olivia arrives, her time in this romantic country of rolling hills and fairytale castles seems doomed…
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Kind-hearted tourist guide Christian has a sick mother and four sisters to feed. But with his van one wheel away from the junkyard, business is not exactly booming. So how could he possibly say no to Elena Rusu when she offers him a nice chunk of money to drive an American heiress around? Even if every soul in town knows not to cross paths with Elena…
But when Christian is ordered to drop Olivia off for a stay at the derelict Magura Castle – the most haunted place in all of Romania – Olivia and Christian start to question every detail of her family trip.
I really wanted to like this book. It had a really intriguing plot and the summary made me feel like this would definitely be right up my alley. However, this book turned out to be more like an extended synopsis. It didn't feel like a full book, but rather the cliff notes version. None of it was bad, but there needed to be a lot more. There wasn't enough time for true character development, or to even get immersed in the scene and the characters. There also wasn't any of the creepy crawlies I was hoping to feel, based on the blurb. Again, they could have been there, if there had been more story and more description to the story we did have.
Overall, I would not be able to recommend this book, as, for me, it wasn't really a book, but a summary of a good book.
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