Suzy was chased by the media as a young girl because of her father’s wrongdoings as a religious leader. Ever since, she’s lived quietly, hiding from the public eye. One day she runs into Texas governor Gil Riley and is unprepared when he expresses his interest in her. She sleeps with him only once—she knows there’s no way they could last. She’d never fit into his high-society lifestyle, so Suzy decides to disappear from his life. Little does she know she’s pregnant with his baby!
Sophie Hill has a brand-new job as an project assistant to the illustrious Marc Washington, the Italian magnate who won an auction for an uninhabited island and is dead set on making it his own personal haven. While this may be rote for the wealthy, Sophie doesn’t come from this line of thinking or spending power, but she does have a personal connection to the Italy that Marc embraces. When Sophie was a child, she was a tomboy who adored her painter grandfather who took her in. Friends with a gondolier, Sophie never had much money, but she did have the love that comes from hard times with cherished family. Thankfully, a stranger saved her grandfather’s life many years ago when he had a heart attack, but it might not be the only heart he saved in her world… There’s no doubt that Sophie and Marc can make his dream of a private island home come true, but will they fill it with love?
Evelyn, a virtual secretary, liked her job. She liked that she could interact with her bosses online without ever having to meet them face-to-face—except for the one boss she had already met in person… She met Leo Zamos three years earlier. It was lust at first sight, but after a passionate kiss, she ran away from him. Leo didn't know his virtual secretary was the same woman he'd kissed. And, not knowing that she was, he demanded that Evelyn look for a woman to stay the night with him!
Since Jake Harvey had swept her into a whirlwind wedding that had ended in heartache and separation, Kate had grown up. She'd been too young for marriage, she can see that now. She finally had her feelings under control. Or so she thinks, until Jake enters her life again. Suddenly she realizes that her feelings for him are just as intense as ever.