HE WAS DESPERATE TO REMEMBER... Jake wasn't sure why he'd agreed to take his twin brother's place on the flight to London. Nor why he'd agreed to commit Nathan's crime. Maybe it was misplaced loyalty, maybe it was the memory of their mother's sacrifices. But when Jake awakens in a hospital after...
Ruth was young, she was beautiful, she was ripe for love...but she was innocent,until Dominic invaded her island home,and her heart... Dominic was rich and powerful, bored and world-weary,fighting a temptation he had never before had to face... Indigo was the island,Indigo: Warm and colourful, ...
"I want to leave, and I'm going to!" Toni continued her protest determinedly. "I don't know what kind of person you think I am, or what you think you can do to me. But you can't make me stay here!" The Conde smiled. With his looks, his money, and his castle in Portugal, he could usually make an...
Cuando la seducción es capaz de saldar las cuentas pendientes...Dos años atrás, Abigail Leighton había pasado en Miami una noche inolvidable junto al irresistible y enigmático Alejandro Varga, pero ciertas crueles mentiras los habían separado y Abby había regresado a Inglaterra con el propósito d...
Escape! Juliet savored the word.For years, Juliet's father had used his wealth, power and influence to rule her life. But now, she was free to make her own decisions. She had assumed a new name and identity, and had run away to a job on this beautiful West Indian island.But had she jumped from th...
A brief encounter or lasting love? When Caroline first saw him on the elevator, she had no idea who he was. She only knew that he was tall and darkly handsome--and that she longed to see him again. Later she would discover that the magnetic stranger was Adam Steinbeck -- wealthy owner of the co...
¿Qué secretos ocultaba aquella misteriosa mujer?Sara era un mujer bella, misteriosa y angustiada. Matt estaba muy intrigado por la personalidad de su inesperada invitada porque ella se negaba a contarle de dónde venía, pero era obvio que huía de algo.El sentido común le decía a Matt que no se imp...
She saw the look of anguish that crossed his lean tanned features at the child’s careless words. He obviously cared deeply about his daughter, and it hurt him to hear her describe the way she thought he thought about her. She sensed he was fostering all the remorse of a single father who was obli...
With the balcony doors open, heat was spreading into the room from outside, and she turned the thermostat down to warm the room. Then, wrapping the folds of the towelling robe she had found behind the bathroom door more closely about her, she seated herself in the chair Edward had used the night ...
He looked up rather myopically as she put her head round the door, removing the thick-lensed spectacles to blink at her in surprise. 'You're early aren't you?' he asked, trying to focus on the dial of his pocket watch. 'I thought you were going to Liz's party.' ...
Sitting in the airport bar drinking her second glass of Coca-cola, Dominique thought that she might have been anywhere in the world were it not for the predominantly Portuguese accent, and the dark skins of the men around her, who all seemed to find the silvery glint of her hair and the Scandinav...
Surveying herself later in her bedroom with her face flushed and stained with hot, angry tears and her hair an untidy mess, she found her indignation giving way to a trembling awareness of something that bordered on hatred that would listen to no defence. No wonder Paul had refrained from telling...
Today, preferably.’ It was the next morning and, after making certain enquiries, Cleo had found her way to Serena’s apartments. The older woman had bid her enter her suite, evidently expecting it to be one of the servants. Her eyes had widened considerably when she’d seen Cleo. ‘To go home?’ she ...
She knew she ought to refuse—that she should refuse—but she defended her right to change her mind. Taking a breath, she said, ‘What do you want to talk about?’ Her lips twisted. ‘We could have talked the other morning, but you couldn’t wait to get out of here.’ ‘Would you ...
How had it happened? she had asked herself again and again. How could her father, an experienced yachtsman, have lost all control like that? No one would ever know, she supposed, shuddering as she recalled her father's bloated body washed up at Sheerness.People had been kind, of course. Her fathe...
Her wishes might have been granted—but love, despite the propaganda that surrounded it, actually wasn’t a magic wand. Love didn’t take away every last neurosis. Love didn’t creep in at four a.m. and tap you on the shoulder to remind you that you were safe. No, love wrapped you in its arms at two ...
Isobel had read that the earlier settlers had believed the bay was the mouth of a river. ‘Rio’ meant river, and, along with the month in which the country had been discovered, had given the city its name. She’d read a lot on the journey, wanting to know as much about the country and its people as...
It was so good to be with people who knew nothing about her. Who accepted her story that she’d planned to come on holiday with a girlfriend, but the friend had been taken ill at the last moment and been unable to come. And Mark and Lucy were a nice couple. Mark did most of the talking, but Lucy s...