Mountains of Love

MOUNTAINS OF LOVEForty-eight hours can change everything.It’s March on a Swiss mountaintop. Vivika-fifty-one, a hospitality consultant with a career spanning three decades across Europe and the Middle East-returns to the hotel school where she lived, learned, and loved thirty years ago. The mountains remember. So does she.This is where Theo warned her away from Bash. Where something electric started and never finished. Where the circuit was interrupted before it could complete.When Bash arrives twenty-four hours late-eyepatch real, pirate hat ridiculous, smile devastating-he offers forty-eight hours. No strings. No promises. Just the chance to finally know what it would have been like.She says yes.What follows is intoxicating. Dangerous. The kind of connection that rewrites everything you thought you knew about yourself. By Monday morning, hearing his engine roar as he leaves the mountain, Vivika knows she’s in deep. Deeper than she’s been in years. Maybe ever.When he invites her to Marbella for a hotel consultation, she goes. Maddie-best friend, truth-teller, the one who’s walked through fire with her-joins her. What begins as business becomes something else entirely. The jade man Vivika has worn around her neck for decades isn’t protection. It’s evidence. And Bash is carrying its twin.Bash, Theo, Amílcar-three men she trusted. Sons whose fathers built an illegal network that spans continents. The consultation was never about hotels. It was about her.Danger closes in. Secrets surface. And Bash makes the ultimate sacrifice to protect her-walking away from everything, including his sight, so she can escape.He will never see her again. Literally.But at La Hacienda in Costa Rica, surrounded by coffee plants and the ghost of Amílcar’s love, grief becomes clarity. She loved him. Loves him still. His sacrifice demands she honour them both-not by mourning, but by living fully. By stepping into the space he created for her and making it her own.The Pussy Posse holds the line throughout-Annie, Hélène, Priss, Maddie-friends who know when to speak and when to stay silent. Who show up. Who stay.Mountains of Love is a story about:Second chances that arrive thirty years late. Dangerous men with dangerous fathers. Impossible choices made in impossible circumstances. The difference between being chosen and choosing yourself. And learning that sometimes love means stepping into the space someone else created-and claiming it as yours.Perfect for readers who love:Second-chance romance with dangerous stakesInternational settings spanning Swiss Alps, Spain, Morocco, and Costa RicaComplex relationships that defy easy answersFemale friendships that anchor and sustainWomen claiming their power through grief and transformationStories where sacrifice becomes the doorway to something greaterMountains of Love is the second book in The Between Journeys Trilogy.In Book One, Between Journeys, Vivika learned that autonomy isn’t given-it’s claimed. She found her own true north.In Book Two, Mountains of Love, she discovers that independence isn’t the destination. Connection is. But only when you’re whole enough to meet someone as an equal.In Book Three, Forever Connected, Vivi will learn what it means to stand alongside someone without losing herself-and whether the love she’s been circling for thirty years can finally land.The Between Journeys Trilogy follows one woman’s journey from dependence to independence to connection-becoming whole.Three decades. Three continents. Three loves.