The viva damão! Romance series
King of diaMONDS
If a diamond is truly a girl's best friend, could he ever trust anyone to truly love him over his diamonds?
In the shady world of glittering diamonds, glamour girls passed through Pedro’s hands just like the diamonds he handled - staying with him for a while, getting their attention and physical love and sometimes basking in their glow before they moved on up the food chain in search of bigger adventures and purses.
As a diamond smuggler operating solo between Portuguese-occupied Damão and Bombay in mainland India, circa 1950’s, HERO had it all - fast money, adventure, women and the looks to go with it. But he didn’t know that his rough-cut handsomeness was concealing a facet in his heart that yearned for true love.
Rita, the police chief’s only daughter, delighted in breaking conventions. Escaping the confines of small-town Damão and the predictability of having to settle for a boy-next-door type kept her eyes dreamy in the day and wide open in the night.
But breaking this convention would break her parents’ heart. Because of the blockade India had imposed on the town, she’d never see her parents again once she went to Portugal. And she’d be labelled as decadent because whites had a reputation for marriages that seldom lasted a lifetime.
On one of those sleepless nights, she broke another convention by becoming the first woman to venture out with the menfolk to dig out turtle eggs at the water’s edge.
Taking cover of the dark and the crowd, a young man paddled his canoe across the Indo-Portuguese border on the coastline to dig out a parcel in the sand - just where HEROINE stood.
As they stood transfixed in the moment, they both knew that their lives would never be the same again - for better or for worse.
Who’s catch was it? Only time… and tide would tell.
King Of Diamonds is a standalone book in the Viva Damão Romance collection of sweet romance stories. If you like nostalgia-mitigating stories set in Portuguese-occupied enclaves on the western shores of India, you’ll love this first-in-the-series by award-winning author, Noël Gama.