Eliza Lincoln is stunned to find Leon Valente at her door. Four years ago his passionate embrace was a brief taste of freedom from her suffocating engagement – until Leon discovered her secret. Yet he hasn’t come to rekindle their affair.
He has a proposition he knows Eliza can’t refuse: he needs her help to take care of his motherless daughter. Torn, Eliza can’t ignore a vulnerable child – but the last time she was near Leon her desire nearly consumed her. Is she willing to take that risk again now that the stakes are even higher?
‘Tense and dramatic, a thriller from start to finish.’ – Juliette, 56, Winnersh www.melaniemilburne.com.au
Melanie Milburne read her first Harlequin at age seventeen in between studying for her final exams. After completing Bachelor's and then Master's Degree in Education, she decided to write a novel and thus her career as a romance author was born. Melanie is an ambassador for the Australian Childhood Foundation and is a devoted owner of two cheeky toy poodles who insist on taking turns sitting on her lap while she's writing.