Touched by Fire /Sensible Cecily /Midsummer Magic

Touched by Fire — Mary Lee Stanford

A Candlelight Romance - 584 Laurie Rowan was in luck. LaVerne Associates, the leading New York decorating firm, had sent her to Europe to sketch eighteenth-century designs and bring a package of precious porcelains back to Paris. It was the first step in putting thoughts of her broken engagement behind her. And what a thrilling opportunity! First Paris, then Marseilles. First her encounter with ruggedly handsome David Kyle, the American businessman; then the seductive attentions of suavely elegant Count Jean-Claude Vieillerocque! Wherever she turned there was romance -- and an elusive sense of danger. Once burned, was she twice shy? Should she trust her instincts -- or her heart? Margaret Summerville - Sensible Cecily A Candlelight Regency Special - 571 She was the poor cousin of Lady Prunella Throxton, brought to London as companion to the flighty teen- age heiress. Perhaps in such moneyed company even Cecily Camden could find a suitable husband. Tall, slim, red-haired, and unfashionably freckled, Cecily was hardly a conventional beauty. And she didn't even have a fortune to sweeten the chase. All the more reason for astonishment when the dashing Marquis of Ashford sauntered into her life. "He's not to be trusted!" they said. "Merely a summer dalliance," they whispered. But try as she might, Cecily couldn't put Ashford out of her mind. Was it love or madness? Playboy or prince, he was the only man she wanted. Nobody else would do! Juliet Gray - Midsummer Magic For a long time Gemma Carlile believed that she loved Brady Warwick, the internationally famous star of stage and screen who had hurt and humiliated her so badly. The realisation that she had cherished a foolish dream left an emptiness within her. Yet some strange destiny brought them together again ... Older, wiser, needing some greater fulfillment in life than he had yet found, Brady Warwick wondered if destiny knew better than he did what was