Caneda Lang was long a poor relation until her brother inherited the Earldom and now her mother's family, who they've never met, wants to become part of their lives because they are now rich! Canada travels to France to teach them and her mother's ex-suitor, the Duc de Saumac, a lesson!

[taken from fictiondb] He was everything Carly Anderson detested. Josh Cade was a soft, sophisticated city slicker, and a representative of Americo Oil Company. His geological survey would result in the mining of shale oil--and the destruction of her ranch. She was determined to stop him. But Carly discovers she has mistaken both the purpose of the survey and the measure of the man. Josh is as rugged as any rancher ... and though Carly has been betrayed before, she cannot resist Josh's heady caresses, nor deny her overwhelming passionate response...

Their year-long debate-by-mail was hardly an auspicious beginning: He called her a "raving reincarnation of Susan B. Anthony"; she dubbed him "arrogant, obnoxious, and overbearingly macho." Yet when Shakespeare scholar Torie Clavel finally meets her rival expert, British theatrical director Nick Forsythe, their caustic wit is consumed by quicksilver desire. In London, Nick turns Torie's tea for two with another scholar into a party for three, then literally stages an elaborate seduction scene-then tries to direct her life as well! But Torie, fully versed in domineering men, refuses to take her cues from Nick, despite his determination to have her...in every sense of the word.

[taken from fictiondb] Alone and penniless on a remote Mediterranean island, Andrea Donnelly finds herself freed by widowhood from a disastrous marriage, but still bound by emotional trauma. A job as cook at the secluded Villa Verdon offers her a chance to rebuild her shattered self-esteem. But there the owner, Matthew Carleton, a charismatic British TV-producer, stirs in her burning passions she's never known. Does he intend to destroy her fragile defenses... or save her with his strong embrace?

[from fictiondb:] After the crash that took her memory and altered her appearance, Lilly Parker began to search for the identity that eluded her. As she searched she could not escape the memory of Kirk Remington, the husband of whose love she had never been sure. As an unsuspecting Kirk fell in love with the woman she had become, she longed to tell him the secret of her past and become his true wife once more.

In the Animaling series: 1. Animaling Wan 2. Animaling Nyan