Paula Moore

A trio of heartwarming romances features Debbie Macomber's "5-B Poppy Lane," in which Ruth Shelton, while asking for advice on her own romance with a soldier, stumbles upon a secret from her grandmother's past. Presents three stories that center around grandmothers who were all married to soldiers and who pass on advice about love, separation, and wartime experience to their granddaughters.

Bertilla's mother was a society beauty, who didn't want anyone to know she had a grown daughter, and decided send her away to her aunt in Sarawak. When she was fleeing a persistent suitor, she runs into handsome Lord Saire at the train station and later on board ship. Lord Saire, who was known, because of his success with the ladies, as the Love Pirate, finds himself in charge of this girl when they shipwrecked. As Bertilla approached the veranda, she heard her name mentioned by her hostess and a lady guest. "I cannot help thinking it is funny," the visitor said, "that Lord Saire-- the Love Pirate -- had to be shipwrecked with no one more exciting than an immature girl. Such a tiring encumbrance as she will certainly interfere with the many alluring ladies he plans to see in Singapore." Bertilla suddenly felt her cheeks burning with humiliation. She knew that she must leave before Saire returned--even if by so doing she left her whole heart behind with him. Better she disappeared into anonymity than be a burden to the man she loved. Hot tears cascaded down her cheeks as she returned to her room to pack.

Strangers, born enemies these two were caught up in a torment of love that could not be—yet would not die. Leilani was a Hawaiian princess, fleeing a death-sentence pronounced by the conspirators who seized her beloved island. Mistaken for a girl of ill-fame, unable to reveal her true identity, she fell into the hands of... Costain, an American adventurer in the pay of Leilani's enemies. A cynic about women, Mark Costain found in Leilani far more than he'd ever bargained for. Their destiny was danger—and the bittersweet torment of a savage rapture that could not be, yet would not die.

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