La Vista
A novel by K.L. Rivera
She went looking for the truth about her mother and fell for the one man that truth may forbid her from loving.
New York
Clara Richardson has built a life that makes sense. A successful career. An engagement to her childhood sweetheart, the man she always assumed she would marry.
Then, just as that carefully planned life is about to become permanent, a lawyer arrives with an impossible truth: Clara isn't who she thinks she is.
Carmela
Carmela Linares was born in Puerto Rico. At seventeen, she ran away, leaving behind her family, her home, and even her name. She became Jane Del Monaco, built a new life in New York, and never told anyone where she came from.
Not even her daughter, Clara.
Puerto Rico
Now, a grandmother Clara never knew existed has died, leaving Clara a house in the mountains of Puerto Rico, a place Clara knows so little about; she didn't even know the island had mountains.
But if she wants to understand why her mother spent a lifetime hiding who she was, Clara will have to go there.
La Vista
Hidden in the lush mountains of Aibonito, Puerto Rico, stands La Vista, a once-grand estate slowly surrendering to time.
But the house isn’t the only thing Clara inherits.
Behind its faded walls lie the secrets of her mother Carmela’s hidden past, and some of them have been waiting forty years for Clara to come home.
Santino Camacho
Santino is part of the inheritance too.
Bound to La Vista by a history of his own, Santino has as much at stake in Clara's arrival as she does, and a connection to her mother's past neither of them fully understands.
The closer Clara gets to the truth, the harder Santino is to resist.
And the more she wants him, the more dangerous that truth becomes.
Readers
La Vista is for readers who love emotionally layered, character-driven stories filled with romance, family secrets, complicated relationships, and a little humor. At its heart, it’s a story about identity and belonging, and the tension between where we come from, who we’re told we are, and who we ultimately choose to become.
Told in dual point of view and set between New York and the mountains of Puerto Rico, La Vista is a love story wrapped inside a family mystery, where uncovering the past may change everything its characters believe about themselves, their families, and each other.
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