Legacy

January 30, 2017
Fielding’s sprawling Andalucían Nights trilogy concludes with a dense and disappointing standalone romantic saga. Budding investigative journalist Luna Ward leaps at the chance to write an exposé on an alternative treatment health care center and its founder, Dr. Rodrigo Rueda “Ruy” de Calderón. She abandons her desk overlooking N.Y.C.’s Hudson River and heads for the cobblestone streets of Cádiz, Spain. But a series of chance encounters with a mysterious stranger threatens to derail the undercover assignment before it even begins, as the sexy fellow—who awakens an overwhelming sensuality Luna never knew she had—turns out to be Ruy himself. As the two take tentative steps toward romance, the secrets they’re both keeping lie in wait to destroy the love they’ve found. Fans of Fielding’s previous Andalucían Nights novels (Indiscretion, Masquerade) will recognize past heroes and heroines; unfortunately, she also repeats story lines and characterizations. But new readers will have no trouble following the action, such as it is.