Kitty is a rum distiller who takes a job in Havana, Cuba to get away from her memories. When Cesar is injured trying to avoid hitting her on his motorbike, she takes him home to patch him up. Their chemistry ignites, and they passionately come together. When Cesar discovers afterward that she is his newest employee, he leaves. Weeks later, Kitty discovers that their time together had unexpected consequences. She's pregnant when she thought she was unable to have a child. After the way he left, will Cesar even want to know?

This book took a while to get rolling, but once it did, I enjoyed the read! If you are as addicted to Harlequin Presents stories as I am, you will definitely want to pick this one up!

Consequences of a Hot Havana Night by Louise Fuller is the story of Cesar and Kitty.
This was a classic Harlequin Romance with the well off hero but with a strong heroine who had a very quick hot encounter that turned out to not be so quick. They end up meeting again but with a boss/employee type theme. I am a fan of Harlequin Romances from the first time I picked one up. I know that I am getting a fantasy story that may not be real in real life. Is one of the reason I love reading is to break from the real world sometimes.
Enjoyed their story.

A man and woman met have sex in Havana, Cuba, and seven weeks later they meet again and she pregnant. This is where the problem come in at. The woman was married for five years, her husband died after an illness. The male characters has issue with self-destruct. The outcome you have to read the book. This book was a quick read.


I received this advance copy from the publisher and NetGalley for my unbiased opinion.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin romance for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. I enjoyed this book. I loved the setting. I found it interesting what Kitty's job was-inventing a new rum flavor. A one night stand turns into something much more. I think most romance readers will enjoy. I rate it a 4.

When it comes to a Harlequin with consequences in the title, you can pretty much guess that said consequence arrives nine months after a night of steamy shenanigans and eats, sleeps, wails and poops.

“I don’t even know your name…”
“It doesn’t matter.”

No point denying it I was sold on the hot Havana nights theme. I’ve never visited Cuba so I’ve no idea whether some artistic license was in play here, but I don’t pick up a Harlequin Presents for realism and that’s no slight on the imprint or their authors because I pick them up for the romance, the vibrant colourful locations and the sexy men who sweep the ladies off their feet with both forgetting all about the miracle invention that is contraception in the process.

And that’s exactly what Louise Fuller brings her reader with a sizzling chemistry between a couple who throw caution to the wind and deal with the aftermath like responsible grown-ups with little conflict. I’ll definitely be checking out more from her.

This was a good little book, and has the most sensible, mature (in behaviour, not age) characters I’ve ever come across in an instalment in Harlequin’s Presents line. There was no manufactured melodrama. However, it gets a bit hard to believe in a “sexy billionaire” story set in a communist country.

Perhaps some readers will find the lack of major conflict in Consequences of a Hot Havana Night a little too tame, but it was nice to come across a Presents hero who didn’t go around treating the heroine like garbage and accusing her of random things she didn’t do. Even though he had a “bad ex” in his past, he also didn’t take those issues out on the current woman in his life.

Also, this was a heroine with an interesting career, which was a nice change!

Now…

I love Cuban culture – who doesn’t? And Havana is a colourful, exciting choice to set a Presents instalment.

However, Cuba is also one of only five communist countries left in the world (alongside North Korea, China, Vietnam and Laos). And the realities of communism are ugly – very ugly. This story could never happen, because Cuban citizens are unable to live the lives depicted in the book. It doesn’t matter how pretty Havana looks in the tourist brochures.

There is a review on Goodreads by someone who is actually Cuban that succinctly illustrates why the setting is problematic.

On the other hand, I doubt the communism issues will enter the minds of most readers (my family escaped the Soviet Union; it’s a touchy subject for me). Don’t let that dissuade you from reading this book.

Cesar the rich sexy Cuban with the green eyes sounded delicious and Kitty the British women who was carrying his child after one hot encounter. Sounds great but I couldn’t get past this setting being in Cuba. He owns a rum empire, in Cuba?! It belonged to his parents, come on, Cubans lost everything after the revolution and everything belongs to Castro. Just ask the Bacardi people who fled Cuba and left everything behind. Also, Cubans can’t travel freely, ever!! I’m Cuban so this story was just to fantastic to be believable, it should have been set maybe in Brazil or on one of the islands that are free. The story dragged and I didn’t care for the ending.

As a long time Harlequin Presents reader I was pleasantly surprised by how good Consequences of a Hot Havana Night by Louise Fuller was. Its not often you see Cuba represented as a location. This was a very enjoyable read with likable characters, believable back stories and loads of chemistry.
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César likes to tease, ‘I’m Cuban—we practically invented dancing. So, yes, I can dance.’ The man is just so considerate, 'later, he re-tied the strings of her bikini and she smoothed his hair into some sort of order. ‘It’s the least I can do after ravishing you.’ I liked this book, I liked César.