{"product_id":"travel-secrets-shar-lemond-9781775337324","title":"Travel Secrets: Book One - Rio de Janeiro","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery Destination Holds a Secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWork, sleep, repeat. Instead of living the dream, travel writer Rachel Moore is dreaming her life away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a new owner takes over \u003cem\u003eTravel Secrets \u003c\/em\u003emagazine the chance of a lifetime appears. About to be \"downsized,\" Rachel desperately conjures a way to avoid losing her job by betting her boss that she will find a scoop in Rio de Janeiro - or be fired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking for an exclusive story in exotic Rio, the curvy, insecure Rachel must overcome the sabotage of a vicious model with the help of her sexy tour guide Otavio. She must learn how to use the power of a different culture to conquer those insecurities and thus discover the greatest travel secret of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTravel Secrets is contemporary women's fiction, celebrating body positivity and transformation through travel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking in \u003cem\u003eTravel Secrets \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, Rachel has been stuck covering the same American tourist spots for three years. She dreams of traveling the world instead and of someday starting her own, unique women's magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen young tech millionaire, Ryan Brooks, buys the failing magazine, he must \"downsize\" the company in order to save it. About to give Rachel \"The Talk,\" Ryan instead agrees to the bet that Rachel conjured out of desperation: Give her a chance to cover Rio de Janeiro during carnival, and to bring back an exclusive story - or she's fired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Rio, Rachel is accompanied by beautiful, mulatta tour guide, Isabel, and surly, sexy tour guide Otavio. The accompanying model and businesswoman, Chantal, along with photographer, Kevin, bully Rachel for her ideas and curvy body throughout her time there. Rachel does her best to get along with Chantal, who is currently dating her boss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtavio pursues Rachel from the start, telling her she is beautiful, an observation she finds hard to believe. Both he and Isabel first seem to distract Rachel from her goal, but both end of proving themselves essential to finding the scoop. (This is a genuine scoop, still unknown to the American travel industry). Since Chantal can't model in some of the scoops, the necessity arises for Rachel to star in them herself. She dances in front of the Samba school masters, dances on a carnival float, and even performs a striptease with her new Brazilian girlfriends at a bachelorette party.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of the bullying of her childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, Rachel has stepped into a different kind of world. The admiration the Brazilians hold for both her courageous spirit and her body helps Rachel perceive herself in a different light. She realizes that body image is an issue that is viewed differently around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel's affair with Otavio leads her to his childhood home in a dilapidated shantytown, opening her eyes to the other side of Rio, a side tourists normally don't see. By the end of her trip, Rachel understands the spirit of Rio de Janeiro itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel goes back to New York as \u003cem\u003eRaquel\u003c\/em\u003e, a confident, sexier, happier woman hoping her final scoop is a winning one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer resolve to remain a changed woman is tested amongst the sophisticated French women in \u003cem\u003eTravel Secrets: Book Two - Paris and Bordeaux \u003c\/em\u003e(to be released soon).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shar LeMond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1775337324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781775337324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shar LeMond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.71d","brand":"Shar LeMond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48850441240831,"sku":"9781775337324","price":13.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/travel-secrets-shar-lemond-9781775337324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}