Tour director Harriet Ruby is a young, well balanced, smart, and hardworking over-achiever. So far her life has been good but predictable and ordinary. Her biggest problem is that she does not have any real problems and is much too trusting.
Directing her first solo tour in Europe, she and her group get lost in the Kasbah, the old walled marketplace, in Tangier. There, one of her tourists becomes ill and needs a doctor.Harriet can't find her way out. When a handsome and mysterious stranger, Will Talbot, pronounces the tourist dead and offers to help her smuggle the body out of Morocco, Harriet's once-predictable life turns upside down and will never be the same.
Their fast-paced romantic romp through exotic foreign lands takes them in hot pursuit of murderers, smugglers, international terrorists, a dead man’s secret, and a healing, once-in-a-life-time love.
This is the first novel in a trilogy about Harriet Ruby and Will Talbot.
Deception, passion, and love battle in a world wherenothing is as it seems.
Disdained by her father and facing an arranged marriage, young Angela Rosarno yearns to be loved for herself. She flees her home and travels to Sicily into the arms of Santino Camastro, a man she has come to love only through his letters though never met.
Wooed and rushed into marriage, she learns --all too late--that her husband is not the man who penned the letters.
Determined to uncover the truth, Angela's actions set off a series of betrayals and murders. By the time she discovers that her husband's brother Antonio is the man she truly loves, she is hopelessly trapped in Santino's ruthless world of ambition and greed.
When deception, passion, and a mother's love collide, Angela will have to risk everything she values, even the man she loves, to win freedom for herself and her children.