When landscape architect Rachel Jennings-Porter loses a nearly new boot escaping a stranger at Quarry Lake, she counts herself as lucky to have gotten away. The place was deserted, or should have been. Only nature kept her company as she inventoried the site—rare and delicate orchids, soaring osprey, a sleepy brown turtle—until the mysterious and all-too-human stranger appeared in the water. When that same stranger shows up at her office, wearing a winsome smile and carrying her lost boot, Rachel faces an uneasy decision. Save Quarry Lake, or save her job? For her “trespasser” is none other than Street Wellman himself, the firm’s most important client. But Street is no Prince Charming. And when that boot hits the table, Rachel’s plans to make a good first impression fly right out the window—followed by her determination to keep Street at arm’s length.

Cheryl Cooke Harrington grew up in Toronto with the beaches of Lake Ontario in her backyard. These days, home is a west Toronto condo shared with an opinionated miniature parrot and his companion cat. She writes romantic suspense and women’s fiction.

Born in Wales, Anne Norman moved to Canada at a young age and spent much of her young life “pollywogging” near the Scarborough Bluffs. Grew a lot of little frogs but no princes sprang from these, as far as she knows. Supposedly a grown-up now, she finds her cats and birds to be (mostly) patient companions, though they are sometimes heard sniggering when she suffers from writer’s block. She lives in southern Ontario with no current blocks and plots her next book.

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Born in Wales, Anne Norman moved to Canada at a young age and spent much of her young life “pollywogging” near the Scarborough Bluffs. Grew a lot of little frogs but no princes sprang from these, as far as she knows. Supposedly a grownup now, she finds her cats and birds to be (mostly) patient companions, though they are sometimes heard sniggering when she suffers from writer’s block. She lives in southern Ontario with no current blocks, and plots her next book.

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