Carpenter's Mermaid
(1997)
A novel by
Daphne Clair


The last thing adventurer Dart Carpenter expected when he deliberately stranded himself on a Pacific islan was to find a naked "mermaid" washed up on the beach. The woman who called herself "Copper" couldn't recall how she fell overboard, but her dreams were filled with terror. After the two of them returned to civilization, she was confronted by the past. A shocking revelation shatters the idyllic love affair she had shared with Dart in their tropical paradise.

When they meet again, the secret that Copper has kept from Dart for two years is in danger of exposure. But a more deadly danger forces her to beg for his help. Can she overcome Dart's angry suspicion and save the child she loves from the violent aftermath of an act so monstrous that her mind refuses to remember it?

A Guilty Passion by Laurey Bright


Ethan Ryland knew it was mad to invite his brother's widow to stay at his island home. But beautiful Celeste was alone and suddenly too fragile to be on her own—hardly the wanton seducer his brother had accused her of being. Instead, to Ethan's chagrin, she was still the quietly sensual woman who had once stirred his guilty passion.

He didn't want her resurrecting memories. He'd spent years denying the overpowering emotion she'd awakened in him—emotion that had exploded into shame at his brother's raging jealousy. But as Celeste became stronger, Ethan's desire mounted ... and his willpower weakened. Loving Celeste had shattered his world, yet he realized only her love could make him whole.