Judith McNaught

A single night of passion with a mysterious millionaire draws a woman into a perilous criminal case when police suspect that the man may have been responsible for the disappearance and possible murder of his own brother.

When the rich, successful husband of a beautiful New York actress mysteriously disappears, she plunges into a desperate search to find him ... and into a menacing web of secrets, deception, and danger.

A policewoman in a small Florida community, Sloan Reynolds knows that her modest upbringing is a long way from the social whirl of Palm Beach, the world inhabited by her father and her sister, Paris. But when an FBI agent informers her that her father and his associates are suspected of fraud, conspiracy, and murder, Sloan agrees to accept the sudden invitation they extend to have her join them for the Palm Beach season.

In 1820, a shipwrecked sailor, Stephen Westmoreland, is found on a Scottish shore with a treasure chest of gold and jewels. He is nursed to health by Cory Drummond and they are married by her vicar father. But Drummond is spirited away by members of his crew who inform Cory that he died. A year later she spots him in London, walking down the street, but he has no recollection of her or their marriage. By the author of Paradise.