Erika Robuck
â€œShe remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time sheâ€™d thought it romantic. She hadnâ€™t understood his warning.â€,In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her fatherâ€™s death leads her to a bar and bordello, where she bets on a risky boxing match...and attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, and Gavin Murray, one of the WWI veterans who are laboring to build the Overseas Highway.,When Mariella is hired as a maid by Hemingwayâ€™s second wife, Pauline, she enters a rarified world of lavish, celebrity-filled dinner parties and elaborate off-island excursions. As she becomes caught up in the tensions and excesses of the Hemingway household, the attentions of the larger-than-life writer become a dangerous temptation...even as the reliable Gavin Murray draws her back to what matters most. Will she cross an invisible line with the volatile Hemingway, or find a way to claim her own dreams? As a massive hurricane bears down on Key West, Mariella faces some harsh truths...and the possibility of losing everything she loves.
Historical,Historical Fiction,Fiction,Romance,Historical,Womens Fiction,Chick Lit,Adult Fiction,War,Family,Novels,Relationships
Hemingway's Girl