Rebecca Heflin Bücher

She sees a stereotypical thug. He sees a spinsterish misfit. If the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for the world's most boring life, Millie Stephens knows she would hold the record. After the plain, strait-laced personal assistant is saved by a total stranger from becoming New York City's latest traffic fatality, she has a disheartening epiphany. She needs to get a life. Determined to step out of the shadows and take a walk on the wild side, she starts Millie-style-by making a list. That total stranger, bad boy Ian Brand, could help Millie with one very important item on her list: sex. But Ian is more than the sum of his parts-and he's got some really great parts. Beneath that sexy, tattooed exterior is a man with a painful past who's desperate to both hide and overcome his disability in the pursuit of his dreams. Will Millie and Ian look beneath the surface and see there's more to each other than meets the eye?

Sarah Edwards loves stability, but now finds life has other plans for her. Divorced, bored, and twitchy, she's convinced her impulsive, sometimes irrational decisions are the sign of a mid-life crisis, and the contradictory actions and emotions are giving her family and friends mental whiplash. Her abrupt resignation from her job is the final straw. But a two-week trip to England seems the perfect pick-me-up for this Anglophile and Austenite. Enter Alex Fraser, a.k.a. the Earl of Rutherford, who although a member of the lucky sperm club, prefers to be known for what he's accomplished, rather than a fate of birth. Despite his family's disapproval, he is determined to work in his chosen profession of acting. He's always preferred casual flings with beautiful women who have no illusions of marriage. That is until he literally bumps into Sarah in an Oxford pub. Despite an idyllic week together, Sarah gets cold feet and returns to the States determined to come back down to reality. A year later, the realization of Sarah's life-long dream unexpectedly brings Alex back into her life, in what she believes is an ironic twist of fate. Will Sarah's decisions leave her life in shambles, or will they lead to the promise of change? Show More Show Less