Forever Barcelona Women's Fiction
Randall Peffer
When Sports Illustrated writer Jacob Korn goes to Barcelona to cover what may be the last year of bullfighting there, he enters a world he knows only through the writing of his personal hero, Ernest Hemingway. His main interview is the legendary Doña Irene Filipa Puig y Rivera, La Reina de Toros (Queen of the Bulls), bullfighting’s greatest fan. Doña Irene reveals to Jacob that as a young woman she’d had an affair with Hemingway in 1959—the Dangerous Summer. Even better, Doña Irene’s niece is a young doctor treating injured bullfighters during her annual summer visit from Havana. Jacob believes interviewing her will give him an inside scoop on the ancient sport so intrinsic to Spanish culture.
Until he meets the niece, that is. Montserrat Elena Rivera y Gispert, better known as Montse, is…she’s…well…she’s more than beautiful. She’s smart, sexy, fiery, everything a man could want in a woman. Except for a small detail—Montse hates everything about bullfighting and isn’t shy about letting anyone know it, especially that American pig, Jacob Korn. Oh yes, and one other thing—Jacob has a girlfriend back in Boston, a photographer assigned to shoot the bullfights, and she’s coming to Barcelona…
What follows is a romantic dance that intensifies in passion until Jacob and Montse can ignore it no longer. Jacob gives himself over completely to Spain and the bulls. With the heady mix of heat and danger and death and history, there is almost nothing that can keep Jacob and Montse apart, not even the animosity between America and Cuba. Jacob came to Spain searching for a story, but what he found was love.
Until he meets the niece, that is. Montserrat Elena Rivera y Gispert, better known as Montse, is…she’s…well…she’s more than beautiful. She’s smart, sexy, fiery, everything a man could want in a woman. Except for a small detail—Montse hates everything about bullfighting and isn’t shy about letting anyone know it, especially that American pig, Jacob Korn. Oh yes, and one other thing—Jacob has a girlfriend back in Boston, a photographer assigned to shoot the bullfights, and she’s coming to Barcelona…
What follows is a romantic dance that intensifies in passion until Jacob and Montse can ignore it no longer. Jacob gives himself over completely to Spain and the bulls. With the heady mix of heat and danger and death and history, there is almost nothing that can keep Jacob and Montse apart, not even the animosity between America and Cuba. Jacob came to Spain searching for a story, but what he found was love.
About the Author
Randall Peffer is the author of the Cape Islands Mystery Series for Bleak House and Tyrus Books, (Killing Neptune’s Daughter, Screams and Whispers, Old School Bones, Listen to the Dead, Bangkok Dragons Cape Cod Tears and Provincetown Follies Bangkok Blues), the Civil War at Sea Trilogy (Southern Seahawk, Seahawk Hunting, Seahawk Burning), Watermen, Logs of the Dead Pirates Society and six travel guides for Lonely Planet and others. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, National Geographic, The New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune and many other publications. Peffer teaches literature and writing at Phillips Academy/Andover.
