After finding her fiancé in the arms of her aerobics instructor, Marcia Kline calls off the wedding. When she learns her brother, Russell, is in trouble in Rio de Janeiro, she goes on her honeymoon alone to check up on him and runs smack-dab into Russell's boss, Jared Reed, whom she'd been briefly involved with two years ago. Before long, Marcia becomes entangled in the danger surrounding her brother and the seamy underworld of high-tech espionage during Carnaval. Jared Reed suspects Russell Kline is in Rio selling his latest avatar prototype. He flies to Rio to catch Russell in the act, and instead saves Marcia from being kidnapped at knife point. Jared suspects Marcia is involved in her brother's scheme, so to keep an eye on her, he decides to help her search for Russell. And finds it hard to keep his emotions for Marcia in check. In a race for their lives, will they learn to trust one another and make an everlasting Rio Connection?

キャロル・ヘンリーが描く本作の真髄は、熱狂的なリオのカーニバルという動的な喧騒と、ハイテク諜報戦の冷徹な静寂が織りなす鮮やかなコントラストにあります。婚約者の裏切りを経験したヒロインの心の再生と、猜疑心に揺れる再会愛。この二つの要素が、煌びやかな異国の地でスリリングに交錯する点こそが、読者を惹きつけて離さない文学的な深みと言えるでしょう。 物語の核心を貫くのは、信頼という絆の脆さと強靭さです。最先端のアバター技術を巡る陰謀のなかで、敵か味方かも定かではないかつての恋人と手を取り合う。その極限状態が生む緊張感は、単なるロマンスの枠を超え、人間の本質的な孤独と渇望を浮き彫りにします。灼熱のリオで展開される命懸けの逃避行は、読者の魂をも熱く焦がす一級のエンターテインメントです。