When Toronto chef Isabela Restrepo inherits a crumbling colonial hotel in Cartagena, she expects a quick sale to escape her mother's crushing debt—until she meets Diego, the enigmatic caretaker whose rough hands and forbidden knowledge of her body's hunger threaten to unravel twenty years of icy control. As corrupt developers circle like vultures and the sultry Caribbean heat strips away her armor piece by piece, Isabela must choose between the safety of her sterile Canadian life and surrendering to a man whose touch promises to burn her perfectly ordered world to ash.
