kidnapped

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...

It's Sarah Daniel's wedding day and she's marrying her friend Dan – she loves his family but is worried that she might not have romantic feelings for him. She's even written him a letter explaining why she couldn't marry him but she didn't have the guts to give it to him. Then Ryan Noble shows up while she's getting ready in her dress and demands she talk to him, but when she passes out from too many tranquilizers and not enough breakfast, he sort of kidnaps her – to prevent her from getting married before they could talk it out.

Bk #51--Back Cover Blurb: Annie Kincaid has never held the right cards, not when it comes to love.Twice married, twice divorced, she's given up on finding her soul mate--though not on having a family. So Annie's decided to have a baby. On her own.

Master Sargent Marine, Zachariah Taylor meets Lily Morrisette, a chef with a killer body, and then the fun begins!