Bed of Roses (English, Hardcover, Katherine Stone)

Actress Cassandra Winter lies in intensive care, following a merciless attack by an unknown assailant. Now a man appears, a stunning stranger, demanding to see the ravaged actress, claiming that she is his wife. Today Cassandra is famous and celebrated. Eight years ago she had been, simply, a woman in love. The man she adored was Chase Tessier, the genius behind Domaine Tessier, the gray-eyed maestro who created the poetry that was Tessier wine. Chase and Cassandra met during an enchanted summer, when the air was sweet with newborn grapes and moonlit roses. Chase had never been in love…until her. And Cassandra had never been loved at all…until him. Yet it was she who left their love. She who vanished with the secret she must never reveal. Years later, Chase is back to help her, if he can…to love her, if she will permit it. Hope Tessier, too, is at Cassandra’s side. Chase’s little sister – and Cassandra’s college friend – has become a star prosecutor, clinging to her work as she once clung to her dreams…as she once clung to a man named Nick. But the mysterious Nicholas Wolfe soon returns to Hope’s life, and she dares to dream anew. Danger awaits them all on their journeys toward rainbows, toward roses, toward love. For the perilous secrets of the past will not be silent, and the assailant who left Cassandra for dead lusts, still, for her death.

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