Both of them were still recovering from previous unhappy love affairs, which was why Sarah decided to accept. Surely neither of them would wish to get emotionally involved again for a very long time, but she had not considered what would happen if her feelings for Hugo changed, while his remained the same. Could their need for love overcome their painful pasts, and allow a new companionship to grow?

    But the very attractive Dr. Friso Eijsinck always seems to be surrounded by pretty girls. Harriet begins to feel that, as far as Friso is concerned, she is merely one of many. What she doesn't understand is that Friso has also met the woman of his dreams, and he will do whatever it takes to make her his bride!

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    After all, wasn't he a brilliant and sophisticated young man and wasn't his legal career one of the most promising in all of London? Everyone seemed to agree that Gerald was the perfect husband for Emma -- everyone but Lady Grantly. When Gerald first requests that Emma help Lady Grantly, his wealthy but difficult client, to choose a new home, Emma complies dutifully but reluctantly. Yet Lady Grantly is a delight! Not at all the cranky old thing Gerald has painted, she is a thoroughly charming and spirited woman whose scatterbrained ways endear her to Emma. When Lady Grantly picks the coast of Portugal as the site of her new home, Emma accompanies her there. The journey is filled with surprises. For the first time Emma comes to know a gentle way of life among gentle people where even the young, brilliant lawyers have a friendly air.

    All London was agog when Sophia rather than Daphne wed the dashing Earl of Gresham, whose scorn for bookish females was well-known.The marriage was intended as a business arrangement only — to preserve the Earl's fortune and give Sophia financial independence. But what was Sophia to do when she found herself enamoured of her husband, though too proud to admit it? Sophia needed all her wit and womanly wiles in a game of pretense and passion, to make the man she loved, love her.

    In a way she and Shane lived for their summers - the summers they spent on Tiree, their island home off the Maine coast, where every year three months together almost compensated them for the winter, when their two worlds had to be kept apart. But now, suddenly, with the promise of another summer close at hand, Shane was dead; and when she at last had made herself believe it, Alix saw clearly that her very reason for being was gone. So, she resolved, she would finish the children's portraits she'd been commissioned to paint, and then she would go to Tiree, put the house in order, and quietly end her own life. It was the logical solution, not even frightening to contemplate.But Tiree that summer confronted Alix with the unexpected. At first too absorbed in her somber plans to realize what was happening, she was drawn unavoidably into abrasive contact with two other people - a man and a young girl - who had also decided that their lives had become pointless. Instinctively Alix set about persuading them that they had every reason to live, and one day found that in spite of everything she was persuading herself...