LEARNING TO TRUST, by Lynne Connolly

*****  I loved it!  


I finished it in one day, and not because it is short. (73000 words)


Bellina Mazzanti Forde disappeared with Byron Brantley five years ago.  Now his brother Jonathan has tracked her to Naples and asks for her help in finding his brother, in fact he decided not to let her out of his sight until he can do it.  


Lina doesn't want to be found and never thought of returning to her life as a socialite in New York city.  She had a new identity and is happy in her new and thrifty life, as a waitress of a small Cafe in Naples. They cannot avoid the incredible pull of desire and they start an affair.  There are lots of sex scenes.   Someone shots at them .  Why?


I liked the characters very much.  Lina is a recovering drug addict, she  is independent, she studies and works.  Jon is lovable, sexy and possive, in a nice way...