She’s flustered & hasn’t been around a man this beautiful in a while.Īmber begins spending time with Derio & the children & starts to see a different side of Derio. Amber tries to walk on eggshells around him & stay out of his way, but she can’t help the way just the sight of him makes her body respond. He keeps to himself & wants to be left alone. He is a brooding, damaged man who seems to have shut down. After a tragedy he’s become very closed off & private. He’s an ex-motorcycle racer who comes from a very wealthy family. Desperately in need of a job, Amber takes on the challenge & goes to work for Signor Larosa.Īmber quickly learns that the sexy mysterious older brother that looks like a model has issues.

Amber has a degree in English, but has never really been around kids much. She must re-locate to their home in Capri. He hires Amber to teach the children proper English.

Derio recently became in charge of the family estate, & his twin siblings are now under his care. old gorgeous Italian man named Desiderio Larosa aka Derio. Figuring there are worse places to be stuck, & not really wanting to go home & return to reality, Amber searches for a job in the hopes of extending her adventure a little while longer.Īmber answers a help wanted ad & gets a job working for a 29 yr. She has landed in Southern Italy in the town of Positano on the Amalfi Coast, and can’t afford a plane ticket back home. After backpacking and traveling around the world for the last six months, Amber is now out of money. old American woman from San Jose, California. It’s always next but never here.Īmber MacLean is a 24 yr. It’s in the next destination, the next town I get lost in, the next stranger I talk to. But when her position as teacher turns into one as full-time nanny at the crumbling old villa, Amber finds herself growing closer to the enigmatic recluse and soon has to choose between the safety of her life back in the States and the uncertainty of Derio's closely guarded heart.When I’m traveling, I feel like the secret to my life, to myself, to really becoming, is one step ahead. It also doesn't help that the children are under the care of their brooding older brother, Italian ex-motorcycle racer Desiderio Larosa.ĭarkly handsome and oh-so-mysterious, Derio tests Amber's patience and will at every turn-not to mention her hormones. There are worse places to be stuck than the gorgeous coastline of southern Italy, but the only job she manages to secure involves teaching English to two of the brattiest children she's ever met. After a frivolous six months of backpacking through New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia, she finds herself broke on the Mediterranean without enough money for a plane ticket home to California. It's time for twenty-four-year-old Amber MacLean to face the music.

Racing the Sun by Karina Halle