Intoxicating Tango

Book excerpt: After a series of life-changing and terrible losses, Cherie moves tosteamy Buenos Aires, where the romantic attention of the localmen reignites her youth and sexuality. But women like her, whostay to create a life and dance the best tango in the world, rapidlyfind themselves bombarded with flattery and compliments by thecaballeros and milongueros - Men who see women as little morethan sexual objects¿making life for a free-spirited Americanwoman more sensuous and difficult.Soon she meets Joaquin, the handsome and skilled tanguero whoquickly dances his way to her heart. But will the stiflingatmosphere of sexual oppression poison the life she has worked sohard to create, far from her home of Los Angeles?Based on the author's true experiences¿ Intoxicating Tango pullsback the red velvet curtain of the milonga (the place where socialtango is danced), and reveals the secrets of the viveza criolla- the"artful lying" and machismo that drives life in Buenos Aires.