Bruno McKendrick knows that he can win the attention of any woman he pleases. The well-to-do son of a Scottish-born father and Italian mother, Bruno is one of the most eligible bachelors in Australian high-society. But on this night at a party off the coast of Sydney Harbour, finding love is the last thing on his mind as he makes his way through the usual crowd of movers, shakers, and hob-nobbers. Then he lays eyes on an incomparable beauty whose face Bruno is sure heās seen before.
Her name is Isabelle Martināand she says sheās not who Bruno thinks she is. Still, heās determined to prove that Isabelle is the living image of someone his late private-investigator father spent his life trying to find. Solving this twenty-year-old mystery is one challenge; the burning attraction between Bruno and Isabelle is another. As he closes in on the case and discovers a dark truth from Isabelleās past, Bruno risks tearing her whole world apart . . . unless she will allow him to help pick up the pieces . . . āIn this enjoyable contemporary, Way . . . combines romance with a decades-old mystery and the dazzling beauty of the Australian outback. . . . The mystery . . . propels the novel forward at a swift pace as romantic tension heats up between Bruno and Isabelle, and readers will eagerly follow them to the satisfying ending.ā āPublishers Weekly
Bruno McKendrick knows that he can win the attention of any woman he pleases. The well-to-do son of a Scottish-born father and Italian mother, Bruno is one of the most eligible bachelors in Australian high-society. But on this night at a party off the coast of Sydney Harbour, finding love is the last thing on his mind as he makes his way through the usual crowd of movers, shakers, and hob-nobbers. Then he lays eyes on an incomparable beauty whose face Bruno is sure heās seen before.
Her name is Isabelle Martināand she says sheās not who Bruno thinks she is. Still, heās determined to prove that Isabelle is the living image of someone his late private-investigator father spent his life trying to find. Solving this twenty-year-old mystery is one challenge; the burning attraction between Bruno and Isabelle is another. As he closes in on the case and discovers a dark truth from Isabelleās past, Bruno risks tearing her whole world apart . . . unless she will allow him to help pick up the pieces . . . āIn this enjoyable contemporary, Way . . . combines romance with a decades-old mystery and the dazzling beauty of the Australian outback. . . . The mystery . . . propels the novel forward at a swift pace as romantic tension heats up between Bruno and Isabelle, and readers will eagerly follow them to the satisfying ending.ā āPublishers Weekly