Trust Issues

Narra believed her summer with Théo had ended. He is the Irish heir to a billion-dollar company, and their romance was fast and short. Now he comes back with a proposal: marry him so he can secure his inheritance, and the two of them can step out from under their families' expectations.

She has until the end of summer to give her answer. The story follows Narra as she sets the cost of a marriage that is part arrangement and part real feeling against the cost of letting Théo go for good. Whether staying is a price she can accept is the question that runs through the weeks she has.

This is a contemporary romance in a tropical setting on the Philippine coast. It is a novella, so the story is short and stays tightly on the two leads and the decision between them. The title points to the tension: a proposal built on convenience asks Narra to put her faith in a man she knew for one summer.

Trust Issues is the second novella in Carina Gaskell's Invincible Summer series. The series follows Filipina heroines through summer romances in the coastal town of Dalisay, and each book centres on a different woman.