Mediterranean Nights Series

Single mother Trish Melrose has been offered a rare opportunity to mix business and pleasure. While sailing the Mediterranean aboard the luxurious Alexandra's Dream, she's to convince businessman Theo Catomeris to re–sign his shore excursion company with Liberty Line. Theo's long–estranged father has put her up to this assignment, but an undeniable attraction between Trish and Theo is distracting her from the business at hand. Theo's success and happiness on the island of Corfu suggest that he's a man with blueprints to good fortune, but absentee parents have made it difficult for him to get close to anyone. Having discovered that his father has purchased the cruise line he used to work with, Theo is more than reluctant to trust a relationship with him. But will meeting Trish give him a new perspective on building a future and resolving his past?

Successful fashion designer Marina Artamova is determined to reunite her small family. Her orphaned nephew has vanished into the Russian welfare system, and her mission is his rescue. After months of searching, Marina locates Stefan but not before he's adopted by David Anderson, an American teacher. She books passage on Alexandra's Dream, the cruise ship David has chosen as a treat for the uncharacteristically reserved boy before taking him to the U.S. Marina is single–minded in her quest to gain custody of Stefan, despite the romantic ambience of the cruise ship and her undeniable attraction to David. Marina and David have no idea that the boy's silence hides a secret about his parents' deaths and that the man responsible will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.

Danielle Chevalier has a taste for the finer things in life, especially the lush, exotic scents she creates at her fragrance business. Under pressure from her brother to sell the small outfit, Danielle is thrilled when she's invited to an exclusive conference aboard the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream. There she hopes to gain contacts necessary to rally her business and avoid the devastation of a takeover. But Danielle's dreams have a harsh run–in with reality when she meets Adam Burns, a representative from a major U.S. competitor who is determined to outmanoeuvre her in negotiations. Fighting off the advances of a competing fragrance company is hard enough, but resisting her attraction to Adam may prove to be the real battle and mixing business with pleasure may just cost her both.

Missing a huge scoop is an eager reporter's worst nightmare. And that's exactly the situation sports journalist Lola Sandler is in when she boards the cruise ship, Alexandra's Dream. During the break of a big scandal back home, Lola finds herself watching waves break in the Mediterranean. Luckily for her, a bigger story is waiting for her on the ship.... Four years ago in the final round of the Masters Tournament, pro golfer Eric Lashman walked off the green – and away from professional sports forever. After years of cultivating privacy and anonymity, he never imagined that he'd be teaching golf, let alone aboard a cruise ship. When Lola recognizes him, she sees an opportunity for a career–making exposé. But their developing attraction may force her to make a choice: write a news story or live a love story.

As captain of the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream, Nikolas Pappasis used to navigating his way through rough waters. But he hasn't been able to steer his heart in the right direction since the day he ran out on the only woman he has ever truly loved. The daughter of a shipping tycoon, Helena Stamos lived a life of power and privilege back then, and Nikolas knew a lowly deckhand had no future with a woman like her. Now, after fifteen years of heartbreak and regret as suddenly as he had left her Nick is back in Helena's life. While the years have passed and they have both moved on with their lives, the pull of their mutual attraction hasn't weakened. But even if they can see beyond their past and resolve their incompatible lifestyles Nick left her once. What's to stop him from leaving her again?

Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? After almost twenty years with her husband, Charles, Katherine Stamos finds herself at sea. What has happened to the closeness and passion she and Charles once shared? Her father suggests the perfect solution: a cruise aboard Alexandra's Dream an opportunity to escape their everyday lives and reconnect with one another. Once aboard ship, it's still hard to leave their work behind. And much of what Katherine most wants to hear remains unsaid. She begins to think it is perhaps foolish to want to relive the heady feeling of first love. Maybe those emotions are only for the young. And then she meets June and Albert, an elderly couple who after decades of marriage still find magic and excitement in everything they do together. Their example makes Katherine wonder if it is possible for the love she shares with Charles to be perfect, even if she and Charles are not .

When Mei Lin Wang met young radical social activist Wei Chans he knew it was fate. She didn't know that less than three years later she would be left widowed with a newborn son after a suspicious illness claimed Wei's life. Now, still convinced of their shared destiny, Lin is determined to avenge Wei and continue his work, but she must also protect her son from those responsible for her husband's death. For months Lin has secreted her son below deck on the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream, under cover of her job. It's turned into a game of hide–and–seek with the ship's security officer, Gideon Dayan, whose interest is piqued by the mystery that surrounds her. But through his attraction, Gideon sees his own haunted past when he looks at Lin and she can't let her past go. Will they finally be able to face the future together?

To the passengers aboard the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream,Ariana Bennett appears to be an unassuming librarian. But her real mission is to probe the underworld of antiquities smuggling and find the criminals who framed her father and caused his death. At one of their ports of call, Ariana hopes to discover proof of her father's innocence. Instead she finds herself held captive. And Dante, an intense and mysterious stranger imprisoned with her, is her only ally. She realizes they must join forces to survive, but when their alliance turns to attraction, she wonders if he may be concealing his true intentions. If only she could trust him. If only she could trust herself

Becky Montgomery's husband was a real catch. And when he died two years ago, she buried her emotions and her needs with him, and buried herself in her job. Sailing aboard the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream for a weeklong vacation with her two children and a painfully exacting mother–in–law, Becky figures a Christmas holiday doesn't seem like the time to start dipping her toes into the sea of love. But when she finds a pendant that's supposed to bring her luck and meets Dylan Langstaff, the ship's charismatic diving instructor she may be ready to take the plunge. Dylan has charmed a lot of women in his time working aboardAlexandra's Dream, but there's something different about Becky. It's changing the way he wants to live just the way something about him is changing the way she wants to love .

Serena d'Andrea doesn't believe everything she sees. As the only heir of an affluent Argentinean publishing family, she's been finding it increasingly difficult to trust that the men she meets can see past her wealth. But on a Rhythm Dancers Cruise aboard Alexandra's Dream, Serena's attention quickly turns from rumbas to romance when she finds a pendant that's said to bring whoever wears it luck in love. From the moment she puts it on, though, she's beset by a rush of mishaps that make her wonder if someone may be watching and following every move she makes on and off the dance floor. Luckily, Gilles Anderson always seems to be around to come to her rescue. But the fact that he looks exactly like a man from her past a man she once thought she could love has Serena watching every move he makes.

It's been eight years since Tory Sanderson has seen Ben Cooper eight years since she found out he seduced her to win a bet with some classmates at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, and eight years since she got her revenge. After fulfilling her dream of publishing a cookbook of island recipes, Tory is thrilled when she's invited on a Caribbean cruise as a guest lecturer. But excitement turns to anxiety when she finds out that Ben, who is now a celebrated restaurateur, will join her as the guest chef. Ben accepted the guest chef gig in order to enjoy a week of Tory sweating it out in the kitchen. But once the heat starts to climb, getting even turns out to be the last thing on his mind. In fact, picturing a future with Tory in his kitchen might add just the right amount of spice to his life .

After years as a Hollywood wild child, Claire Mackenzie put the urban jungle behind her and laid down roots in British Columbia, where she found stability running a plant nursery. So when her grandfather screen legend Frederick Miles invites her on a vacation aboard the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream, Claire finds it almost impossible to let her hair down again. And since Frederick has agreed to perform in a Golden Era revival show, Claire decides she'd better protect her grandfather's interests by chaperoning rehearsals. She's convinced that Liam Bates, the ship's smooth, charismatic assistant cruise director, is trying to use her grandfather to further his own showbiz career. But as much as Claire can't believe that Liam's charms aren't an act, she's having an even harder time resisting them.