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After years spent creating homes for others, interior decorator Shelley Wilde achieves her long‑cherished dream of owning her own house. Her contented solitude is disrupted when Cain Remington, a charismatic and unrestrained stranger, appears. Together they confront the idea that true home may be found not in walls but in the embrace of a lover.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Elizabeth Lowell
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