A Golden Apollo swimming in the nude... That had been Dizzy James' first sight of Zachariah Bennett. It was hard to reconcile what she had seen then with the stodgy-looking, scholarly professor who stood before her now, silently condemning Dizzy for her waywardness and loose morals. In fact, the man knew nothing about her except what he had been led to believe. And all because Dizzy, who despite her name was anything but, had agreed to a charade to help out a friend. What Zach thought of her had been a matter of supreme indifference to her. Now it wasn't.

Would she always be "the kid next door"? Christi was twenty-two to Lucas' thirty-seven. They had lived in adjacent flats for four years now, and though Christi had been in love with her handsome divorced neighbor ever since they'd met, Lucas had treated her with the affection of a big brother. Christi had tried everything to get him to see her as a desirable woman, like the sophisticated beauties he squired around London. Yet nothing seemed to work. Until the evening she convinced him to demonstrate to her how a man should kiss. And when he complied, everything changed....

"I'm going to marry her," he'd said. Just because David Kendrick fell in love with Jade at first sight, it didn't mean she had to go along with the idea! She had escaped to the sanctuary of a Devon village and a job teaching at her friends' school because she wanted some peace and quiet, and the last thing she needed was this impulsive, handsome man turning her life upside down and stirring up her emotions. But Jade couldn't resist David's single- minded pursuit of her, even though she knew she was not yet free from the terrible shadows of her London past....

She'd stuck it out for five years She'd worked hard and long for her boss, Dominic Reynolds. Their relationship was in many ways closer than most marriages. The real man below the dynamic, supercool exterior, however, still eluded Cathy Gilbert however much she tried to reach him. "You don't give a damn for anyone's feeling but your own," she told him. So perhaps it was time to accept that he just wasn't interested in her as a woman and to make a clean break from him. But Dominic's reaction to the news of her leaving was a complete surprise....