One fateful misstep for Gayla Levine was all it took for her once-adoring fiancé to walk away and her demanding father to disown her. Determined to turn her life around and embrace her newfound independence, she wants nothing to do with men or relationships--until she meets Dan Newman, a sexy surgeon who sends a shock of electricity through her every time they touch.
Dan has spent his life struggling to overcome his own crippling past by devoting himself to healing others who have suffered. Now a world-class surgeon, he's confident in his ability to face anything life throws his way--until he meets a headstrong Texas beauty who has his pulse racing and fills his dreams with impossibly sensual visions.
As they fall into a passionate romance that takes them both to the burning edges of pleasure, these two damaged souls must each confront their darkest demons. Because Gayla is haunted by the echoes of being called a failure and torn by the fear that she'll be rejected once again, and Dan, who has proved his worth to so many others, must now convince himself and Gayla that they deserve the powerful love they've found.
This series has been a bestseller, and several of the novels in it have won prestigious writing organization awards.
For a while Dan had thought he was overcoming the obstacles that stood in the way of beginning a relationship with Gayla. Now, as he drove her home, her silence gave him second thoughts.
“Turn right here,” she told him as they approached a gravel driveway. Then she clammed up again until he walked her to the stairway to her tiny apartment above the golf cart storage garage. “There’s no need for you to come all the way to the door.”
“I don’t mind.” Tucking a hand beneath Gayla’s elbow, Dan accompanied her up the steep, narrow steps. Taking her key, he opened the door.
Strong light framed her face when she turned and looked up at him. A soft breeze ruffled her dark hair and filled Dan’s nostrils with her clean, feminine fragrance.
Her wistful, yearning expression made him want to wrap her in his arms and never let her go. “Kiss me,” she said, so softly he wouldn’t have understood if he hadn’t been staring at her, trying to memorize her features.
“Like this?” Gently drawing her closer, Dan bent and nuzzled at the silky strands of her long, dark hair before moving his lips down her cheek and placing nibbling kisses at one corner of her mouth.
“No, Dan. Like this.”
Desire slammed straight through him when she turned slightly and deepened the contact. When she slid her tongue back and forth across his lips, his cock came instantly alert. Damn it, every cell in his body was screaming for him to take her inside and fuck her until they both collapsed in a sweaty, satiated heap. From the way she held on to him he got the idea she wanted that, too.
But it was too soon. He wasn’t an out-of-control teenager anticipating his first taste of sex, and he liked her too much to treat her as though she were nothing but a handy bed partner.
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Italian
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Already translated.
Translated by Daniele Giuffrè
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Spanish
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Already translated.
Translated by Nieves Llorente
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