Men will want you like they want a glass of rumOne man will love you. But you wont love him. You will destroy his life. The one you love will break your heart in two.So says the soothsayer, when predicting young Celias future. Raised in the tropics of Tobago by an aunt she loves and an uncle she fears, Celia has never felt that she belonged. When her unclea man the neighbors call Allah because he thinks himself mightier than Goddoes something unforgivable, Celia escapes to the bustling capital city.There she quickly embraces her burgeoning independence, but her search for a place to call home is soon complicated by an affectionate friendship with William, a thoughtful gardener, and a strong sexual tension with her employer. All too quickly, Celia finds herself fulfilling the soothsayers predictions and living a life of tangled desperationtrapped between the man who offers her passion and the one who offers his heart.From the Trade Paperback edition.