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New York socialite Judy Lovin values family, friendship, and her career as a preschool teacher over fortune and fame. When her father's business collapse and her father's most powerful enemy offers to help in exchange for her company, she agrees to join John McFarland on his remote Caribbean Island. She suspects he's just a harmless lonely man, but she's wrong. She discovers that John's far from the beast he seems to be and falls in love with him.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Debbie Macomber
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