3.5 stars. Celia has never loved anyone like she loves Francesco, but in the five months they’ve lived together, he’s stifled her with care and concern, insisting on treating her as fragile and helpless because of her blindness. In a moment of anger she throws him out and the devastated Francesco returns to his family home.Hoping they can still make things work, Celia follows him to Italy. But she finds that not only do the old issues persist, but that Francesco has changed, haunted by demons her actions awoke.With its fiercely independent heroine, and vulnerable hero, this was an intriguingly atypical category romance. Francesco is very sweet; in-your-face Celia is not as likable, but she does learn and grow.This is the last in a long family saga and there’s a few complicated subplots. It stands alone okay, but I would probably have appreciated it more if I’d read the previous books first.
