When shy and secluded author Sara Fielding ventures from her country cottage to research a novel, she inadvertently witnesses a crime in progress—and manages to save the life of the most dangerous man in London.
Derek Craven is a powerful and near-legendary gambling club owner who was born a bastard and raised in the streets. His reputation is unsavory, his scruples nonexistent. But Sara senses … Sara senses that beneath Derek’s cynical exterior, he is capable of a love more passionate than her deepest fantasies.
Aware that he is the last man that an innocent young woman should ever want, Derek is determined to protect Sara from himself, no matter what it takes. But in a world where secrets lurk behind every shadow, he is the only man who can keep her safe. And as Derek and Sara surrender to an attraction too powerful to deny, a peril surfaces from his dark past to threaten their happiness . . . and perhaps even their lives.
Together they will discover if love is enough to make dreams come true.
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One of those wonderful romances that give you warm fuzzies from beginning to end.
This is my favorite romance of all time and, if I’m honest, is been my measuring stick since I was 13 years old. Derek Craven, forged by the London streets, climbs his way from the gutter owns his own club. Sara Fielding, is a nearly-on-the-shelf bespectacled author doing research who saves him in more ways than one.
One of the best romances ever written. I just love this book. Awesome characters, great chemistry, feel good story.
I love all of Lisa Kleypas’s novels. They all are books you never want to end. Wonderful characters and stories!
It was like a fairy tale in reverse where the man in the chimney environment experiences the saving grace of life and love from the seemingly unlikely lavender heroine. I loved the anticipation fired off from the get go of the very beginning of the book. It kept me hooked like a roller coaster, and I was so very sorry when I had to debark from …
You know how some books surface from the depths of the past at unpredictable intervals and start haunting you? Well, that happened to me with Whitney, My Love for a while and now suddenly I see Dreaming of You (1994) everywhere (like pregnant ladies, ha!) I’m a big Lisa Kleypas fan but this one hadn’t originally been as memorable for me as It …