Victoria LaMontagne, 32. PhD, English Linguistics; professor of ESL at Covarrubias University in Sevilla, Spain; former Mormon missionary gone native; bullfight aficionada; thoughtless, rude, and completely clueless.
Victoria LaMontagne, 32. Possibly the most beautiful woman in Spain. “I may be eye-catching in my palazzo pants and tunics, but can you imagine what would happen if I dressed like this every day? I would have to change my name to Helen.”
Victoria LaMontagne, 32. “With very few exceptions, the longest amount of time I have ever dated any man is about eight hours, spread over three dates, at the end of which the man said, ‘Get thee to a nunnery,’ and when I informed him that meant ‘whore-house,’ he said, ‘Good. You’ll starve to death before you get any work.’”
Emilio Bautista, 42. PhD, chemistry; El Draque, bored matador de toros; aficionado of American torch songs and particularly a mysterious nightclub singer named Velvet; aggressive introvert; charmingly ordinary, sneaky, ruthless, and one very brilliant bastard.
Emilio Bautista, 42. “I did not have to spend my life indulging in second-hand matador fantasies to win the woman you could not. I just had to be the matador.”
Emilio Bautista, 42. “El Draque was not a moniker on a poster, not some random torero who happened to be fighting the day she sneaked away from her mission companion—on a Sunday yet!—and nearly got sent home for her effort. This time, at least for this Sunday in the sand, El Draque was hers.”
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