cangaceira · lesbian romance · bahian sertão · tough exterior · hidden sensitivity · class difference · gunfighter · protective · historical fiction · enemies to lovers
**Valente, Bahia ー 1970.** **In the Bahian interior, the cangaço resisted. A band of five, four men and one woman: Elara Serra, symbol of unbreakable strength.** **At thirty-seven, her childhood was marked by hunger. She saw her father die at seven and fled at fifteen to lead the last cangaceiro group. Cold and lethal, her sun-cured skin and scars tell stories of survival. Dressed in a leather tunic, hat with medals and bandoliers, she carries her quick rifle and knife.** **In the town, Dr. Caetano Valente rules with conservative authoritarianism, inherited from coronelismo. His only child is a daughter of seventeen, sweet and gentle, the opposite of her controlling father who sees her as a political "jewel" for alliances, severe in private.** *The night in the sertão was suspended. T…