September 2012 Debut of the Month.
Adventure, escape, raunchy romance and second chances in a steamy, vividly described, Caribbean setting.
A holiday to Cuba leaves middle-aged Chris Hilton in love with the island and people, and a second visit in love with Yamilia, a beautiful but unstable woman 20 years his junior. Back in the UK help and advice from an ex-con sees him planning a new life in Cuba - but living in a country is never the same as a holiday.
An honest and compelling cautionary tale of escaping a mundane dead-end life in England for love, freedom and a second chance in Cuba.
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'I had no real idea how I would get there. I just knew I would go, somehow.'Chris Hilton is middle-aged and broke. He is also in love with a woman twenty years his junior who lives 5,000 miles away. In Cuba. He places an ad in Private Eye requesting advice and receives a reply from Paul, resident of a local prison, serving two years for fraud. Paul offers some helpful guidance. Six months later Hilton boards a Cubana flight, direct to Havana. He has GBP 100,000 in an attache case and a similar amount in a Channel Island bank account. Paul will soon follow after his release; they intend to start a travel business together. Yamilia waits in Havana. She is astonishingly beautiful and of volatile temperament. Her enemies, and even some of her friends, think she is unstable, even dangerous. Jose, Hilton's closest friend in Havana, agrees, 'She is a bad woman. Do not stay with her,' he pleads. Hilton disagrees; he's in love, he doesn't see her that way - Yamilia is natural, honest, a force of nature. Like a hurricane. He will create a new life with her in Cuba. What could possibly go wrong?
Caliente features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, Travel, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure
Caliente is available in Paperback
Caliente was written by Chris Hilton and published by Dunbar & Meredith
Caliente has 341 pages
