AustLit

'Agathe Santos made a vow. To love her child until the very last heartbeat. Hers. Not theirs…

'Four years after her daughter's death, Agathe knows that hope is for losers and so is love. Work has become her greatest escape. But even the world’s loneliest woman can’t hide forever…

'Reluctant CEO Luke Tindall wants a wife, a family, a love that will last. He might have hired Agathe to save his company and deal with his goofy brother, but from the very first meeting, he has desired far more than her sharp wit and tireless work ethic. If only her past wasn’t such a big secret. If only that secret wasn’t a wound she didn’t want healed. Maybe then she’d share more with him than her body.

'But even as Agathe can no longer deny her feelings for Luke, love is not something she thinks she deserves. Now she is left with an impossible choice: lose Luke forever, or lose the one thing that makes her life worth living.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'She wants a new life. He just wants to live. Love is found in the most unlikely place…

'Budding psychiatrist Sophie Tindall, on the run from her predictable life, escapes to the small Australian town of Roseford.

'At just thirty-six-years-old, Orlando Piras is Roseford Aged Care’s youngest resident. Once worldly and daring, his now regimented existence makes him a hostile thorn in everyone’s side—especially when it comes to his new volunteer visitor—the annoyingly inquisitive Sophie Tindall.

'But just like so much of his life, his true feelings for Sophie must remain a secret. Sweet, smart, beautiful, with a cruel ability to awaken hope, she’s everything he’s ever wanted, and now can’t have.

'Every day his condition worsens. And even as Sophie begins to see Orlando as the man to change her forever, she is the one with just three months to save his life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'She’s on the run from a horrific past. He’s on the verge of a riches to rags nightmare. Until one chance encounter changes everything…

'Burlesque bar owner Freya Cortez, leads a razzle-dazzle life until she learns her mother has just weeks to live. Now she is forced to juggle a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity with the torment of her far-from-perfect childhood.

'Millionaire party-boy Max Tindall is facing financial ruin, even his most prized possession is at risk—his home. But a casual encounter with Freya gives him one last chance to turn his life around.

'Though Freya has vowed to never fall in love, even she can’t deny Max is the kindest person she’s ever met, the one man to challenge her “no settling” rule. But how can a woman so fiercely independent ignore the fact that there's something gravely amiss with him? Something even he hasn’t noticed. Something bound to destroy both their lives.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.