• Beverly Hills Perfume: Like a contemporary version of the “Lady in Black” legend, Colleen seeks contact with Rudolph Valentino’s ghost.

• Crystal and Satin: Patricia reunites with a former lover twenty years her senior to experience the joy of his touch once again, but must settle for his memory.

• Deception: Lucinda has an affair without her husband’s knowledge and succumbs to the ultimate deception of her lover.

• The Diary: Fawn rents her former lover’s apartment and learns about the man who dumped her by reading his discarded diary, written Valentino-style.

• At Dusk: A private investigator turned bodyguard protects Leigh from a jealous, stalking boyfriend.

• Encore: Peg renews her friendship with a former English professor and becomes his lover once again.

• Encounter: A voyeur in her own beach house, Demi falls for the epitome of nude male perfection and experiences the thrill of a lifetime when she dates him.

• An Englishman: Rachel’s heart-rending love for a British soccer player changes the course of her life.

• Eternal Flame: A recovering alcoholic ends her marriage, making supernatural contact with the rock star she idolized as a teenager.

• The Guardian: A stranger who appears to have burned in a car wreck rescues Darlene from an abusive husband.

• A Haunting: Alisha receives a silk shirt from the 1920s and finds it haunted by the ghost of Rudy Valentino.

• Interlude: Tess is romanced by the ghost of a dead musician and warned of an impending sexual assault.

• Joshua, My Love: Reunited with a Jewish minister and former lover, Dari forces the man to make the most difficult choice of his life.

• Last Dance: After an earth-moving, one-night stand, Angela longs for her Italian fantasy, until she discovers years later that the company she works for has intercepted his messages, a disclosure that brings them together again.

• Leather Delusions: Hit by a car, Casey falls in love with the driver after he takes her to the hospital.

• Legacy: Cara meets a famous writer’s descendant, while fighting off the effects of a cursed book.

• The Love Letter: After sending a love letter to a songwriter, Sheena discovers she’s made telepathic contact with the sensitive man.

• Melody: Keri, an ordinary farm wife, buys a haunted, autographed photo of an entertainer she loved, then leaves her family for the wealth and glamour and danger of Hollywood.

• Memphis Blues: A London reporter picks up Trish, a young woman with a strange fascination for Elvis Presley’s grave.

• Oliver’s Passion: Messina encounters a perceptive monk with a personal agenda.

• The Orchid: An orchid with mysterious powers reunites Stef with the Australian heartthrob who married her for a green card.

• Rendezvous: Emailed love letters from a strange man bring cynical Christi into the arms of a male romance writer during a once-in-a-lifetime date in Paris.

• Rhapsody: Diane grieves for her lover on the streets of Memphis, a pilot killed in an air crash that could have been prevented.

• A Rose in Paris: Picked up on the Champs Elysees in Paris, Cloe marries a desperate businessman to get him into the United States.

• Soldier of the Natchez: Toria encounters a sexy ghost after laying a violet on a Confederate grave.

• Starlight: An unexpected meeting with her first love at her engagement party forces Naomi to call off her wedding.

• Stranger in Paradise: An overpowering attraction to a tourist changes Kelly’s outlook on life when they land in the dangerous maelstrom of the Bermuda Triangle off the shores of Key West.

• Summer Solstice: Dedication to a haunting musician of ages past.

• The Troubadour: Sue meets a striking British gentleman at an online café and arranges their first face-to-face encounter.

• The Vagabond: Infatuated with a Native American who arouses her passion and takes away her pain, Amber travels south with the healing protector in a motor home.

Genre: Short Stories