Books like Today's Embrace (East of the Sun #3) by Linda Lee Chaikin

Roman of a young English woman, Rachel, who embarks on a sea voyage from London to the South American port of Santa Marina, where she undergoes a profound inner transformation and falls in love.

DANGEROUS DESIRES - When her father remarried and then mysteriously died, silver-haired Star Tremayne vowed to discover what had really happened to him. Suspecting her father's new wife of murder, Star decided to get close to her stepmother's latest paramour: Daere McCalister, a man as wild and unpredictable as his name. Yet with his darkly handsome looks and devil-may-care grin, the rugged gunslinger sent desire coursing through her And though she knew loving him could prove dangerous, Star was unable to resist surrendering to the ecstasy of his passion. LOVING DECEPTIONS - Daere McCalister had come to New Mexico to expose the woman who had killed his best friend. But his hunger for justice and vengeance exploded into passion when Star Tremayne came into his life and heart. He could no more resist the temptation of her sweet ruby lips and soft, enticing curves than he could escape his dark, lawless past. Daere knew he was playing a dangerous game as he transformed Star's sweet suspicion into wanton desire, but he was determined to make her his no matter what the price!

Virginia Woolf’s debut novel, first published as *The Voyage Out*, follows a young English woman’s emotional and sexual awakening during an overseas journey.

Emma Roberts, a cautious researcher in France, encounters a charming new friend and falls in love with the country.

Beatrice Smith arrives at the port of Key West caught up in a whirl of emotions. The time has come for her to release her young charge into the care of his uncle. But a rocky introduction to Ellis Southard has Beatrice clinging even more to the man's four-year-old nephew. She is convinced that this confirmed bachelor cares only for making money through his sponge business. Miss Smith is not the kind of nanny Ellis expected to invite into his home to care for his nephew. This woman is too young, too beautiful, and too much of an intrustion upon his laid-back lifestyle. He decides that she must go back to New York on the next ship. Can they reach a civil agreement about the best interest of the child? Or will an undertow of attraction only keep them at odds?

A young woman from Texas and a Holocaust survivor form a successful cosmetics business, but betrayal and debt threaten their partnership and legacy.