Love in Panama (Prequel‪)‬

When desire ignites in a place where secrets can't stay buried…

★★★★★ "A slow burn done right. Forbidden love, powerful attraction, and a heroine reclaiming her life in the most beautiful way."

Award-winning author Mollie Mathews returns with a sensual, later-in-life romance where desire, danger, and destiny collide beneath tropical skies.

High in the misty hills of Boquete, Panama, where emerald coffee plantations cling to volcanic slopes and secrets lie buried as deep as roots in fertile soil, one woman's inheritance will change everything.

Forty-four-year-old illustrator Mary-Anne Calder came to Panama to settle her grandmother's estate. She didn't expect to awaken a love powerful enough to undo her carefully rebuilt life—or to challenge everything she thought she knew about herself.

Drawn to a remote coffee plantation steeped in legacy and shadowed by bitter family rivalry, Mary-Anne finds herself irresistibly entangled with Rafael Alvarez, a billionaire hotelier and emerald tycoon as commanding and enigmatic as the land itself. Magnetic, guarded, and dangerous to her heart, Rafael is the one man she should avoid—and the one her soul recognises.

As passion ignites beneath Christmas lights and tropical stars, long-buried truths surface. Loyalties fracture. Old wounds reopen. And the land they both love becomes a battleground where desire, inheritance, and survival collide.

In a place where love is never simple and trust comes at a cost, Mary-Anne must decide whether to walk away from the man who could ruin her… or risk everything for a future written in fire.

Love in Panama is a lush, emotionally charged romance set abroad, perfect for readers who crave slow-burn tension, forbidden love, later-in-life heroines, and alpha heroes with hidden depth—all wrapped in breathtaking escapism.

"LOVE IN PANAMA (Prequel) by Mollie Mathews is a novella that definitely left me wanting more. A slow-burning, later-in-life romance that has a tropical feel, but that's not the only reason for the heat.  A quick read that also had depth."

The story continues in THE COLOR OF LOVE (out now)