salythereader

I really enjoyed Bittersweet Rain, the setup was really good.
When the book opens Caroline gets the news that her husband is dying of cancer and that he step-son Rink is coming home after twelve years. Slowly, we learn the truth that even though Caroline is married to Rink's father who is thirty years her senior, the one she loves is Rink, who she thinks made empty promises to her and never showed up.

Their first meeting is fiery and you can see the fire that exists between them and through flash-backs we see their love when Caroline was fifteen and Rink just a college graduate. Caroline was the daughter of the town drunk who always craved more, she graduated college from a mysterious donation and when she came back after some time she married Rink's father and took care of his special daughter.

There is also a romance between the handicapped Vietnam vet and the daughter.
We find out that it was Rink's father who kept them apart due to his manipulations but never managed to kill their love. Rink was forced to marry a woman he didn't make pregnant and then lied to about Caroline's availability when he managed to get himself out of that hell-hole of a marriage.

I enjoyed the whole forbidden factor. Caroline refuses to tell him the truth of her marriage since she wants Rink to love her beyond that and accept her, and he did. But there is still how much Caroline's thinks of people's perception of her.

I enjoyed the public declaration when they both realized what the people think didn't matter only their love did.