Duert ter Brandt disapproved of Christina's relationship with his brother, Adam, and he made sure they both knew it.True, he didn't stop Chrissy from coming to Holland to work near Adam. Still, he made it clear that her infatuation was not in the best interest of his hospital.But maybe he had other -- hidden -- reasons for hoping that Chrissy would give up her notion of love at first sight . . .

    Perhaps she was being a bit unfair to him - she hadn't wanted to let her family home to anyone, so she was bound to be prejudice about him living there instead of her. But then he asked her to go to Spain to act as companion to his fiancee Diana - and Euphemia's dislike grew. How could the doctor be so stupid as to see anything in such a spiteful girl as Diana, let alone want to marry her? If only she could see the back of both of them!

    The lives of beautiful, ambitious Arabella Sperling and handsome revolutionary Harry Cornish, friends since childhood, take different directions amidst the tumult and upheaval of London in seventeenth-century Restoration England

    Instead, she found herself reliving the torment of a lost love—in another man's arms.She thought she could begin again as English tutor to Charles Jabin and widowed sister in the splendor of their isolated coastal estate. But from the moment they met, the mysterious Frenchman seemed determined to uncover her secrets, one by one. Why? Matty responded with a fear she had never known before...and a passion she would never know again!

    Once she had been happy to think of going home to a peaceful English village, to dream of being a quiet, dependable wife. With kisses of fire and a touch the ignited passions, she couldn't deny, Eric Damon had changed all that. The international playboy who had dozens of glamorous, sophisticated women was dangerous — the most dangerous man she had ever met. But she was no longer a little girl to be coddled and protected. She was a woman ready to play the treacherous game of love.

    But what would happen if her hate should turn to desire and, worse, love - as she suspected it so easily could? For Adam Maclean wasn't interested in anyone like Lucy. He wanted a woman, not an inexperienced little nobody. A woman - like the beautiiful widow Camilla Mendoza.....

    He has just cause to hate all Puritans and therefore Joanna has reason to fear for her physical safety. The spiteful jealousy of his mistress, who sails the seas as the Raven’s lieutenant and sees in the lovely Joanna a deadly rival, does nothing to allay her fears.Her strict upbringing tells Joanna she must resist the Raven's desires. Yet, terrifying as this voyage is, when he offers to release her to join her fiance as planned, she asks herself if this is what she really wants?