Passionate Relationship

Pride and passion drew her to Portugal

"It had been your father's dearest wish that his lost daughter be found." The words touched Shelley's heart and destined her for the Portuguese coastal town of Algarve. For her father had remarried, and Shelley could not resist the promise of a family's love, something she had longed for all of her life. Instead she found hostility. Her stepbrother, Jaime, made it clear that he thought she had come to collect the money her father left her, and for no other reason. Yet that didn't stop him from wanting Shelly, and it certainly didn't stop her from falling in love with him...... But her fiery-tempered stepbrother, Jaime, greeted her with the suspicion that she had come only for an inheritance. Shelley was tempted to run--and it wasn't his hostility that startled her....