ISBN: 9780373820443

THE man emerged from a clump of trees about twenty yards away, at the junction of a paved walkway leading to the villa next door, and the gravel path coiling down the cliff to the beach. … More...

THE man emerged from a clump of trees about twenty yards away, at the junction of a paved walkway leading to the villa next door, and the gravel path coiling down the cliff to the beach. Even at that distance, and with the late sun dazzling her vision enough to distort his image, something about himthe proud tilt of his head, perhaps, or the lean and stealthy elegance of his stridestirred such a sense of familiarity in Stephanie that she gasped aloud. Then, fearful that he might have heard, she pressed a hand to her mouth, darted behind a tall plant hung with huge trumpet-shaped flowers, and peered cautiously between its broad leaves. Of course, it couldn't be him. It was her imagination playing fast and loose with her common sense because she was in Italy. His country, his language, his culture. Which was pretty absurd, she decided, when her thumping heart slowed enough to allow her to think rationally. He "d been from Tuscany, from a small town on the Ligurian coast, and spent his days in the mountains, quarrying the world-famous Carrara marble. A plain working man who, even during his brief summer sojourn in Canada, wore dusty blue jeans and sweat-streaked T-shirts. But she was on Ischia, an island in the Bay of Naples, over three hundred miles south, as the crow flies, from Carrara, and a lifetime removed from when she spent summers at her grandparents' house at Bramley-On-The-Lake. And the man in the wheat-colored slacks and white shirt, profiled against the indigo sea and standing with one long leg braced against an outcropping of rock, looked nothing like a laborer. Rather, he resembled one of the rich Italians who'd shunned tourist-infested Capri, and chosen instead this small and lovely island for his summer retreat. True. Definitely all true. But that hardly entitled him to trespass on the private property leased by her grandparents. So why was she lurking behind a protective screen of lush vegetation, when she'd have been entirely within her rights to accost him openly and demand an explanation for his presence? Because he'd sent a kaleidoscope of pictures from her past spinning through her mind, that's why! Memories so staggering in their clarity of color and scent and taste that her skin prickled. They flooded her senses, conjuring up the hot Ontario summer she'd turned nineteen when, day after day, the temperature hovered close to forty degrees Celsius, and the nights were so humid and airless, a person couldn't sleep. In her mind's eye, she saw again the dust motes twirling idly in the finger beams of sunlight slanting through the open door of her grandparents' stables, and him, stripped to the waist, his bronzed torso gleaming. As if it had happened just yesterday, she recalled the terrified thrill of sneaking from the house in the dead of night, and climbing the ladder to the hayloft. Felt again the horse blanket against her bare back as she lay beneath him, with only a sprinkling of stars to see Fiction Fiction eBook, Harlequin<

ISBN: 9780373820443

Sophisticated and smooth--that''s how Matteo De Luca is now--a world away from the rough and ready young Italian who seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen and unknowingly left… More...

Sophisticated and smooth--that''s how Matteo De Luca is now--a world away from the rough and ready young Italian who seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen and unknowingly left her pregnant. On the idyllic island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, Stephanie has come face-to-face with her former lover. Intrigued, and hopelessly attracted again, Stephanie surrenders to an intense affair. But her heart breaks when she thinks of the permanent pleasure that will never be theirs…not so long as Matteo keeps his secret and she hers--the existence of their son…. Catherine Spencer, Books, The Italian's Secret Child Books Sophisticated and smooth--that's how Matteo De Luca is now--a world away from the rough and ready young Italian who seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen and unknowingly left her pregnant. On the idyllic island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, Stephanie has come face-to-face with her former lover. Intrigued, and hopelessly attracted again, Stephanie surrenders to an intense affair. But her heart breaks when she thinks of the permanent pleasure that will never be theirs&#133; not so long as Matteo keeps his secret and she hers--the existence of their son&#133; .<

ISBN: 9780373820443

Sophisticated and smooththat's how Matteo De Luca is nowa world away from the rough and ready young Italian who seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen and unknowingly left her pregnant. … More...

Sophisticated and smooththat's how Matteo De Luca is nowa world away from the rough and ready young Italian who seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen and unknowingly left her pregnant. On the idyllic island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, Stephanie has come face-to-face with her former lover. Intrigued, and hopelessly attracted again, Stephanie surrenders to an intense affair. But her heart breaks when she thinks of the permanent pleasure that will never be theirsnot so long as Matteo keeps his secret and she hersthe existence of their son. Fiction Fiction eBook Sophisticated and smooth--that's how Matteo De Luca is now--a world away from the rough and ready young Italian who seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen and unknowingly left her pregnant. On the idyllic island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, Stephanie has come face-to-face with her former lover. Intrigued, and hopelessly attracted again, Stephanie surrenders to an intense affair. But her heart breaks when she thinks of the permanent pleasure that will never be theirs&#133; not so long as Matteo keeps his secret and she hers--the existence of their son&#133; .<

ISBN: 9780373820443

Sophisticated and smooththat's how Matteo De Luca is nowa world away from the rough and ready young Italian who seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen and unknowingly left her pregnant. … More...

Sophisticated and smooththat's how Matteo De Luca is nowa world away from the rough and ready young Italian who seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen and unknowingly left her pregnant. On the idyllic island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, Stephanie has come face-to-face with her former lover. Intrigued, and hopelessly attracted again, Stephanie surrenders to an intense affair. But her heart breaks when she thinks of the permanent pleasure that will never be theirsnot so long as Matteo keeps his secret and she hersthe existence of their son. Fiction Fiction eBook, Harlequin<