It Takes Three To Tango

Lambda Literary Finalist 2025

Dance is the language of life-and love-that brings three wounded hearts together

Rafe

Barcelona was supposed to be my honeymoon, but I'm here alone with a heart that's forgotten how to dance. Inexplicably drawn to the dimly lit comfort of a tango bar, its compelling owner Constantin, and a passionate young dancer named Florencio. Two men who awaken something within me I never dreamed possible.

Constantin

My late husband Valery and I dreamed big, and we loved even bigger. This bar was his vision, and every night the memories consume me. Until a stranger with heartbreak in his honeyed eyes sits down at a table, and my need to connect becomes overwhelming. What am I thinking? At 42, my one great love has come and gone.

Florencio

My father likes to forget I exist, but now he has a use for me. I've been sent across the sea to Barcelona to suss out what's in my aging aunt's will. When I catch the strains of Argentine tango drifting out of a bar, I'm pulled into familiar territory. A gleaming dance floor, a singer's rich tones, and a beautiful, bookish man who tempts me to ask him to dance.

One tumbledown bar. Three hearts in need of repair. One indomitable woman who knows all they need is the language of dance-and a whisper of silk-to find forever.

It Takes Three to Tango is book two in the Dance Lovers Collection, a series of standalone books which can be enjoyed in any order. Contains a bi-awakening, age gap, second-chance, forced proximity romance set against the backdrop of Gaudi's Barcelona.

​​​​​​​Ideal wine pairing: a dark, passionate red blend.