But gallivanting across the globe has only depleted all of Amber’s savings, not bringing her any closer to finding herself, and only making her even more desperate to find a reason not to return home.
Twenty-four-year-old Amber McLean has been backpacking around the world for the past six months, searching for a reason not to go back home to California, where she would be forced to become the ‘responsible adult’ her parents wish her to be, even though she knows that the happiness she is looking for in life can never be found there. “I’m just this useless, helpless, average little human being who will never live up to her potential.” A delightful reading escape, I could not stop myself from devouring this story, loving every single word. Have you ever walked away from a book with the feeling you could still taste it, smell it, all your senses in withdrawal because for as long as it took you to read that book, you were there, in it-walking those cobblestoned streets, feeling the sunshine on your skin, hearing the chirpy song of the cicadas, lavender and lemons filling your nose with their tangy scent, while your eyes basked in the devastating beauty of the landscape before them? This story was that book for me, Karina Halle’s evocative prose transporting us to the south of Italy, on a journey of self-discovery and introspection, where a young woman travels the world to find herself and love ends up being her ultimate find. But can she give up the certainty of home for someone whose closely guarded heart feels a world apart from her own?
When her position turns into a full-time nanny gig, Amber grows dangerously closer to the enigmatic recluse. Darkly handsome and oh-so-mysterious, the young master of the crumbling villa tests Amber’s patience and will at every turn-not to mention her hormones. It doesn’t help that the children are under the care of their brooding older brother, ex-motorcycle racer Desiderio Larosa. There are worse places for a twentysomething to be stuck than the Amalfi Coast, but the only way she can earn enough money for a plane ticket home to California is to teach English to two of the brattiest children she has ever met. It’s always next but never here…Īfter six months of backpacking and soul-searching across the world, Amber MacLean is flat broke. It’s in the next destination, the next town I get lost in, the next stranger I talk to.
When I’m traveling, I feel like the secret to my life, to myself, to really becoming, is one step ahead.
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