Whilst house-sitting for the film actress Michelle Martin, Jilly met Ed Forster. Jilly couldn't say that Ed hadn't warned her about his reputation with women. He wasn't interested in commitment and he'd made that clear from the start, but she couldn't help falling in love with him. It was an affair that could lead only to heartbreak.
A storm, a legend and the jeweled sea... Since her husband had been killed barely twenty-four hours after their marriage Lori had let life pass her by, mourning her shattered dreams. Then she was offered a job on the beautiful Caribbean island of Dorada. It was there that she saw the ruined home of Emily Greville and heard the tragic tale of how Emily had died on her wedding day after her lover and the husband chosen by her family had fought a fatal duel. Lori empathized with the long dead bride, and the yearning in her eyes was not lost on Emily's handsome descendent, Patrick Greville ....
But without his love she had nothing at all It had been old Hunter Finley's dearest wish that Elizabeth marry his stepson, Dugald Morin. After meeting and falling in love with Dugald, that wish was Elizabeth's, too. But their marriage had gone sour, and Elizabeth hadn't seen Dugald for more than two years--until he returned to Scotland for the reading of Hunter's will. And even after death, Hunter's wish prevailed. Married, Elizabeth and Dugald jointly inherited his vast estate; separated, they got nothing. Nothing except the pain of a broken heart for a foolish romantic like Elizabeth....
