Interesting story of love, family love and struggle, murder and mystery. Puri's father died and she had an inheritance from him in Ecudor. She had always wanted to visit him. Now that both her parents were gone, she could go. She convinced her husband to sell their chocolate shop and go. On the way sailing there someone tried to kill her and did kill her husband. He and the killer both went overboard. She left the ship at shore dressed as her husband, not knowing who had wanted to kill her, suspecting why. She had not known that her father had another family there on the plantation. While in disguise she got to know her sisters, brother and their friends. Slowly the mystery unfolds and the story builds. Jealousy and complicated relationships unravel, and Puri learns more about herself as she can act in ways differently as a man, with rights, and is treated differently than she would have been. But she also sacrifices the true relationship with her family. She is legitimate, they are not, and their father didn't let them forget it, yet he lived with them, not with her. It's interesting that an area that grows cocoa beans does not make them into chocolate. Puri brings that knowledge there with her grandmother's invention. An intricate story with an interesting conclusion.
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