Cirrus@Austlit

'The last person Mardie Rainey expects to see on her doorstep is her childhood sweetheart, Blake Maddock. Fifteen years ago, Blake Maddock had walked away, leaving her teenage heart sore and broken. But now—with a thunderstorm raging overhead—she can't turn him away, nor the injured border collie in his arms….

'Blake Maddock spent his life running from one tragic mistake… Now the frightened boy has become a formidable man—and he's coming back for the woman he has never forgotten.…' (Publisher's blurb)

'Scarlett's back in Italy to turn her family's troubled Rosa restaurant around–and now she's the boss of the man she loved and lost!

'The moment head chef Lorenzo Nesta hears the familiar clack of stiletto on stone floor, a shiver of anticipation runs up his spine. Seeing Scarlett's Italian passion stifled inside a staid suit fills him with regret; it had been his actions years ago that had turned her soul to ice.

'What will happen when ice meets fire in the kitchen?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Taylor Adamson has just come face-to-face with the man with whom she must share custody of her orphaned nephew–the infamously arrogant Dante d'Alessandri! And he won't let Taylor out of his sight!

At first Dante sees Taylor as just a nanny. But soon he realizes this ripe young beauty could fill another, more pleasurable role–in the bedroom. The ruthless Italian wants to see how far Taylor will go to keep caring for her little nephew. Dante is going to raise the stakes!' (publisher's blurb)