This author excelled at building sexual tension between her characters while creating fantastical worlds. Her novels focused on providing escape and entertainment, delving into the complexities of human relationships and passion. Her distinctive style involved meticulously researching exotic settings and offering deep insight into her characters' psyches, often those who were tough on the surface but lonely and yearning for love underneath.
"Toni," he said, "I can't just let you go out into the world, so that you can give your hungry little heart to the next rotter who comes along. Nor can I take you eternally sailing as my cabin boy. I can only make you my wife...." With every particle of her lonely young heart, Toni Fleet wanted to be with Luque de Mayo in whatever capacity he asked of her, but that didn't quiet her youthful apprehension about the future.
"Keep your love. Did I ever ask for it?" Paul's voice rang out. His face was a taut sculpture, chiseled out of stone-as she felt certain his heart was. "No," Domini threw at him, "but you're not quite so inhuman as to enjoy for very long the companionship of a wife who hates you!" She couldn't weep. Tears had set like ice in her and the sweetness of today had turned to bitterness. The rings on her hands felt heavy-like manacles, she told herself. Shackles that bound her to a man who had forced her into a loveless disaster of a marriage.
As far as Melly could see, she and the worldly Jourdan Lanier had nothing in common, except the rare blood that flowed in their veins. Yet Jourdan wanted Melly as his wife, and not because she'd just saved his life. Melly was exactly the woman Jourdan needed at his Caribbean home to help him gain custody of his daughter. Besides, he'd never been able to resist a mystery... So when his daughter was lost to him, Jourdan concentrated on unearthing the secret that kept Melly from being a real wife to him.
One night in Rome Donna Lovelace's life suddenly changed. That night she fell in love with a mysterious stranger. But Rick Lordetti was a hired bodyguard, and he already belonged to her new employer, Serafina Neri, the beautiful retired actress who'd engaged Donna to help in writing her memoirs. Convinced that Rick was more than a bodyguard to Serafina and had fathered Serafina's son, Adone, Donna resolved to forget him. But as Rick said, "When night falls and the stars take shape again, we are inclined to forget our resolutions".
"I want only what's best for you, Dina." Bella, Dina's godmother, sensed from their first meeting that Raf Ventura was a disruptive force. He wanted to save Dina from the perfect marriage Bella had arranged for her to one of California's most eligible bachelors. Raf was a dark, passionate stranger - a man as different from Dina's elegant friends as fire from ice. He was not acceptable in Bella's circles, so he couldn't be acceptable in Dina's heart. And yet nothing seemed able to keep them apart - not even Bella's startling act of revenge. That one hour with Raf Ventura had been more distressing to Dina Caslyn than anything that had ever befallen her. His words returned mockingly to her: 'You're a protégée for your godmother to be proud of. In a few more years the coatings of ice will be so thick on your flesh and your feelings that you'll glisten like a diamond - a lovely frosty diamond with no fire at its heart.' No, Dina knew, she couldn't risk seeing him again!
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-Vous devez arrêter totalement la danse pendant un an, déclare le médecin. En entendant ces mots, Chrys sent son univers s'effondrer. Abandonner sa carrière de ballerine, la passion de sa vie! L'amour? Cela ne l'intéresse pas! Et elle le déclare fermement à l'homme avec qui elle se retrouve, le même jour, coincée dans un ascenseur. Voilà qui doit sembler étrange au prince Anton de Casenove, lui dont les aventures font la Une des journaux à sensation. Et bien, Chrys relève le défi : elle sera la première à résister à son charme! Enfin, peut-être...
