朦朧間... 未婚夫突站在眼前,乍驚逐喜, 忙投身奔越, 欲暢訴別後離情。驀地!腳下踩空, 身形墮下, 訝然四顧, 卻正掉入無底寒淵, 霎時驚恐欲絕, 張口狂喊, 但卻無聲, 雙手惶極亂抓也無攀菁, 而身形猶往下墮...下墮......
克莉雅霍然驚坐而起! 略一定神----原是迷離夢境, 但已汗濕重衫了! 轉望窗外星空, 驚悸逐漸平復, 但午夜夢迴後的無邊空虛又四而掩襲而來......
回首前塵, 未婚夫的音容笑貌宛在, 但卻已天人永隔了! 想到昔日的繾綣纏綿, 更有錐心的悽楚。滿懷的抱怨, 欲訴何人?

身為認真工作最美麗的妝品銷售代表——瑪蒂．安德魯斯——她挨家挨戶地推銷，好不容易為芭比．蘇賣出了上千支唇膏、晉升成「薰衣草級」會員，卻在某晚帶著她心愛的貴賓狗瑪芬散步時，被一隻「從來沒見過這麼巨大的」野狗在手指頭上輕輕咬了一下：

　　瑪蒂不可思議地看著瑪芬一躍而起，咬住了大狗長長的黑鼻頭。大狗搖晃著腦袋，試圖把牠甩掉，可是瑪芬已經用牙齒緊緊地咬住大狗的嘴唇，就算全世界最美味的肥肉擺在牠的眼前，牠都不會鬆口。

萊辛頓公爵在橫越大西洋的遊輪上，邂逅自稱來自德國的施立茲哈登堡男爵夫人。一瞬間，她便俘虜了他的心──她正是他尋覓已久的理想女性，風姿綽約、令他心動又著迷。愛如狂風驟雨般襲來，他迅速地、深深地愛上她，隨即向她求婚──

如此濃烈的感情讓人忘記許多東西。有時候，他覺得自己這一生只有這片海、這艘船，這個女人。

但，她翩然消失了。

「男爵夫人」的真實身分是端莊、年輕的寡婦薇妮西雅‧費茲翰‧易斯特，她接近公爵、春風一度，只是為了報復他。然而，這看似完美的計畫卻帶來意外的後果──薇妮西雅愛上了她厭惡的萊辛頓公爵。
 

Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance.

Attacked on a rainy London street, veteran spy Justine DeCabrillac knows only one man can save her: Hawker, her oldest friend . . . her oldest enemy. London's crawling with hidden assassins and someone is out to frame Hawker for murder.

Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well—until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.