In one single terrible day, predictable and organized
Cassie Moore is let go from her job producing content for a
website and comes home to find her fiancé in bed with his
lover in their shared apartment. Cassie is a woman with a
plan, or "The Plan" as her best friend disparagingly refers
to her well-organized life goals. Suddenly Cassie has no
job, no fiancé, no apartment, no plan. She checks herself
into a nice hotel, gets very drunk and eventually passes
out. She wakes up to hear messages from her friends and
family -- they are alternately worried, or jealous, or
furious, or ecstatic -- because Cassie has bought herself a
six-month ticket to Buenos Aires.
Rather than back down, Cassie is determined to follow
through with this new Plan. When she arrives in Buenos
Aires, she's too tired and scared to explore. Once again
she awakens to a nasty surprise -- an attractive Argentine
man on her apartment doorstep and he's laughing at her.
Mateo is just as sexy as he is arrogant, and Cassie avoids
him when she isn't gazing longingly after him. No matter
what, it's hard for Cassie to break from The Plan that
makes her feel so satisfied and organized. She meets other
expatriate, lovelorn singles at a bar and they form an
unofficial Broken Hearts Club. She begins to blog her
adventures when she needs to think through her emotions.
Cassie's heart is soon being pulled in multiple directions --
sweet Dan has life planned as carefully as she does, but
sexy Mateo has a certain appeal. Can a girl who's always
lived by The Plan discover her spontaneous side?
This book is a fun first novel from an author I hope to see
more from in the future. Between his brooding stares, her
slap-stick errors in judgment and the electric sexual
tension that flickers between them, Cassie and Mateo
deliver many romantic and humorous moments. This book will
appeal to those wishing to travel, to find themselves, to
heal broken hearts and to find comfort in friendships. No
book about Argentina would be complete without the
respectful mention of "the disappeared" and the Madras who
march every Thursday in the Plaza del Mayo in remembrance
of their lost loved ones. Jessica Morrison deserves
kudos for using her book to raise our awareness of this
historical and political situation.
28-year-old Cassie Moore has always played it safe, living
life according to a meticulously organized Master
Plan. But when she loses her Perfect Job and finds her
fiancé in bed with his ex on the same day, it's clear that
The Plan has failed her. She awakens the next day from
a drunken stupor to discover that she's booked herself
on a six-month trip to Buenos Aires. She speaks not a
word of Spanish, but she's already emailed the news to
everyone she knows, so there's no turning back. Once
in Buenos Aires, Cassie is reluctantly seduced by this
glorious city. Her exuberant landlady introduces her to
the handsome but haughty Mateo, a man Cassie clashes
with right from the start. She soon befriends other
lovelorn travelers and together, they start a "Brokenhearts
Club" at a local bar, attracting a cast of characters
that includes Dan, a sweet handsome man who lives as
carefully and predictably as Cassie. Before long, Cassie's
making a new plan: 1. Learn Spanish. 2. Stop obsessing
about impossible Mateo and fall for perfect-on-paper
Dan. But staying on track isn't so simple anymore and
Cassie finally realizes that sometimes life--and love--
defies her best-laid plans.
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