Heart of Gold

Informationen zum Autor Tami Hoag Klappentext In this unforgettable classic novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag! the promise of a new love is imperiled by the secrets of the past. In the charming seaside town of Anastasia! California! Faith Kincaid is looking to start over after her bruising divorce from powerful! corrupt senator William Gerard. But the past still haunts her. As she prepares to testify against her ex at his high-profile bribery trial! the federal government is watching her every move. They've even sent a special agent! Shane Callan! to protect her. Faith doesn't think she needs a bodyguard-especially one as physically formidable as Shane. But he refuses to take no for an answer. Soon the two are sharing secrets and the simmering attraction between them shows signs of sizzling out of control. But as Faith learns! Shane's not a forever kind of guy-unless she can convince him to undergo a major change of heart. Chapter One     "Mama, where do babies come from?"   Faith stopped in her tracks on her way across the spacious old kitchen. Her gaze shot first to her daughter, Lindy, who sat on the floor pretending to feed her doll from a toy baby's bottle, then lifted skyward. "Couldn't she have waited another year ortwo?" she whispered urgently.    Lindy looked up at her expectantly, her warm brown eyes shining with love and trust.  Faith tugged a hand through her mop of curls, a gesture of frustration that only added to their disarray. Loose spirals of dark honey-blond shot through with tints of red tumbled across her forehead. She blew at them as she searched frantically for ananswer that would satisfy a four-year-old's natural curiosity.   In some distant part of the house a doorbell chimed.   Smiling lovingly at her daughter, Faith breathed a huge sigh of relief. "I have to get the door, sweetie."   Lindy had already lost interest in the conversation. She was all wrapped up in putting her doll to bed in the little toy cradle Mr. Fitz had found for her in one of the attics. Faith started for the front of the house, trying to determine which of thedoorbells was ringing.    The house she had purchased to renovate and open as a bed-and-breakfast inn was actually a complex of several houses. The builder, an eccentric sea captain named Argyle Dugan, had added one house onto another over the years as his fortune from his shippingbusiness had increased. The end result after fifty-some years of work was an architectural monstrosity.   The main building was a three-story Victorian mansion, complete with a widow's walk. The front side of the house was graced with a large porch and ornately carved double doors flanked by etched glass panels. These were the doors Faith went toward, followingthe impatient sound of the bell.    Who could be in such an all-fired hurry, she wondered. It had to be a tourist. No one from Anastasia would be that anxious about anything. She swung back one of the heavy doors, and everything inside her went still.    Elegance was the first word that came to her mind. The man standing on her porch seemed to radiate it. Odd, she thought, because he wasn't dressed in formal attire. He wore black trousers and a dark gray shirt with a black tie. His long gray raincoat hungopen, the collar turned up against the brisk wind coming in off the ocean. Still, as he stood there in the late afternoon gloom, with the fog bank for a backdrop, there was a sense of elegance about him. Elegance and danger.   Faith's gaze darted nervously to the suitcase on the floor of the porch, then back up a good six feet to the man's face. He was handsome. No one could have argued that fact. His was a lean, angular face with high cheekbones, a bold straight nose, and palegray eyes that stared down at her with wary disdain. There was something of the arrogant aristocrat in his looks, and so...

Product details

• Authors: Tami Hoag
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2010
• EAN: 9780553593358
• ISBN: 978-0-553-59335-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 174 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Rainbow Chasers; Rainbow Chasers
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature