It Takes Three To Tango

<p>Lambda Literary Finalist 2025</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Dance is the language of life-and love-that brings three wounded hearts together</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>Rafe</em></p><p>Barcelona was supposed to be my honeymoon but I'm here alone with a heart that's forgotten how to dance. Inexplicably drawn to the dimly lit comfort of a tango bar its compelling owner Constantin and a passionate young dancer named Florencio. Two men who awaken something within me I never dreamed possible.</p><p></p><p><em>Constantin</em></p><p>My late husband Valery and I dreamed big and we loved even bigger. This bar was his vision and every night the memories consume me. Until a stranger with heartbreak in his honeyed eyes sits down at a table and my need to connect becomes overwhelming. What am I thinking? At 42 my one great love has come and gone.</p><p></p><p><em>Florencio</em></p><p>My father likes to forget I exist but now he has a use for me. I've been sent across the sea to Barcelona to suss out what's in my aging aunt's will. When I catch the strains of Argentine tango drifting out of a bar I'm pulled into familiar territory. A gleaming dance floor a singer's rich tones and a beautiful bookish man who tempts me to ask him to dance.</p><p></p><p>One tumbledown bar. Three hearts in need of repair. One indomitable woman who knows all they need is the language of dance-and a whisper of silk-to find forever.</p><p></p><p><em>It Takes Three to Tango</em> is book two in the Dance Lovers Collection a series of standalone books which can be enjoyed in any order. Contains a bi-awakening age gap second-chance forced proximity romance set against the backdrop of Gaudi's Barcelona.</p><p>​​​​​​​Ideal wine pairing: a dark passionate red blend.</p>