North Carolina Valentine Scott had come back to Lakesboro to begin again. She had a new job, a tiny apartment, a new life. She'd put the past behind her - a bad marriage that had ended abruptly with a terrorist bomb. She was safe now. No dangers. No uncertainties - and absolutely no Cody Macheris, her intriguing neighbor. Borrowing sugar, okay. Better to stay impersonal though; it was safer. Val couldn't risk loving, and with Cody it was all too tempting. But Valentine discovered that things change. Past dangers could resurface - and so could long-buried desires.
Author
Dixie Burrus was born on September 09, 1930 in North Carolina's Outer Banks, U.S.A, where her family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams. Her father was the professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, she has two sisters, Mary and Sarah Burrus. Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Bronwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.
