kidnapped

When her father's assistant, Owen Bradley, shows up at her incognito journalism internship job and announces Reuben wants her to join him in upstate New York immediately, Samantha Gentry thinks nothing of it.

When Jamie Bellman kidnaps rich, engaged Harrison Trent and promises to keep him at a safe house until just after the time of his wedding, she thought she was protecting him from something or someone. But when the safe house blows up, she starts to wonder if she's got all the facts.

For the past 6 months Dylan Davis has lived by himself on an island off Florida occasionally venturing out to get really trashed.

Lacey Ferris is a bit of a free spirit and her uncles aren't pleased with her. She's dating another guy who's not high on their suitable gentlemen list and she's doing it on purpose

Back Cover:

Missing Husband Found Alive!

Darniano Brnganzi is back! Darniano - the husband whom Eden had thought she'd never see again....

Eden and Damiano had been married only a short time when he disappeared, and things had not been good between them. So, though Eden knows her love for Damiano is as strong as ever, she fears that he will want a divorce...unless she can overcome her hang-ups in the bedroom....
  

Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers to some degree  

Favourite Scene: (the heroine sees the hero after five years of him being missing, and runs to him)

She couldn't breathe. Then was just this massive explosion of crazy joy inside her and she didn't notice herself moving forward at first hesitantly and then breaking into a run.
Damiano let her run to him. He just came to a halt about thirty feet from the helicopter. Later she would remember that, wonder about it. But at that instant she was all reaction and no thought. Every prayer answered, every fear for that moment forgotten, Eden just hurled herself at his big powerful frame, heart racing so fast she reeled dizzily against him as he closed his arms around her.
'You missed me, cara?' His rich, dark drawl wrapped round her, shutting out everything else as he bent his head down to her level.
Her face was squashed into his chest. He smelt so good, he smelt so familiar and she drank him in as if he were life-giving oxygen. 'Don't joke...please don't joke!' Eden sobbed into his shirt, clinging to him with both hands to stay upright.
 

     I have literally been looking for this book for a year or so.  I read someone's review last year ~ a common refrain, ne? ~ and was immediately wanting to find it; it just sounded so wonderful.  Thanks to Christa, I was able to borrow her copy and finally, finally have a chance to read this story and Oh. My. God.  It was amazing!  When I first started it I was reading a bit at a time because it was so intense, but as I got a little further in, I was extremely loathe to put the book down.  Indeed, I read this book with the avidity normally reserved for the BDB. 
     Honestly, if you've not read this book before, hunt it down.  It has joined the ranks of beyond outstanding books that I've read this year.  Beautiful, beautiful, even when the pain Julia undergoes, there is such a spirit of... something ~ something that makes this a story that I will NOT soon forget ~ if ever I do. 
                EXTREMELY AND UTTERLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!

RATING:
Excellence: OUTSTANDING and More ~ 5.0++ stars
Steaminess: Romantic

Lucy Snow is the daughter of Admiral Sir Lucien Snow and the French wife he never thought very highly of. So when her ship gets accosted by the dread Captain Doom Lucy's knows she must behave in a way that would not embarrass her perfect father.

This is a two in one Presents featuring two stories with characters who are not quite who they seem...