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Book Blurb

Sometimes true worth is well hidden.

 

Ellis Campos is a successful divorce lawyer with little to no time for a personal life. His predictable routine is disrupted when he inherits a coffee farm from an estranged aunt. There’s no room in his life for all the complications that come with managing a farm in another state. But his plans to quickly sell it and go back to the big city fall apart when he’s manipulated into spending a week on the estate.

 

Adding to the unexpected surprises, he meets Rudá, a native Brazilian who works on the farm, and while teaching him about his aunt’s home and family, also tempts Ellis like no one ever has.

 

He doesn’t expect his life to change in such a short time, but as he finds value and comfort in the farm’s routine, Ellis quickly realizes that, like the land itself, Rudá has secrets that could send him running back to Rio.

 

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Book Review

“It wasn’t even lunchtime, and he already wanted the day to end.” — Ellis Campos, Beneath These Fields

In this story about a surprising transformation, a successful divorce lawyer without a personal life finds his true destiny – and it is neither in the city nor anything close to what his rather traditional, rigid family would approve of. Ellis has a lot to learn and a lot to think about once he finds out more about the aunt he doesn’t really remember – she left when he was four, and nobody in Ellis’s family has ever explained why or spoken of her with anything other than disgust. Families can definitely be complicated, and even though Ellis has had his own issues with the rest of them, he was never ready to truly fight for his freedom. Until now…

Ellis, who has always lived In Rio, really has no clue what surprises he is in for when he is told he inherited his estranged aunt’s coffee farm far away in another state of Brazil. He travels there with a vague sense of curiosity, but doesn’t expect to find anything of interest. The reality is totally different from what he thought, and what follows is a struggle to come to terms with his own priorities and his family’s history. Laced with wonderful details about Brazil and its people, lots of secrets and mystery, family drama, revelations about the past, and a growing admiration for a lifestyle Ellis didn’t think he’d like, ‘Beneath These Fields’ is an entertaining story with a heartwarming end.

Ellis starts out as a somewhat cold, ambitious divorce lawyer who is focused on his career. Once he arrives at his deceased aunt’s coffee farm, he begins to discover that selling the farm won’t be as easy as he thought. Meeting Rudá, a native Brazilian who works on the farm, helps Ellis find out more about his aunt, and the attraction between them may be subtle at first, but becomes more undeniable by the day. Their way of life is too different for them to even stand a chance – or is it?

If you like romances that are far from simple, if a mystery or two as a man discovers the truth behind his family history is your thing, and if you’re looking for a read with character growth, an interesting supporting cast, and a well-kept secret that almost ruins everything, then you will probably like this novella.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 144 pages/49286 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	25-January-2019
Price	$5.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/beneath-these-fields-by-ward-maia-10120-b