She couldn't win—and she couldn't refuseLucia was furious. She'd been hurt, rejected and now she was being compromised. Rob Ballard's sister had stolen her fiancé and Lucia was being asked to protect her feelings! Her instinct was to leave immediately, but Lucia needed a job to earn her ticket out of there.Rob Ballard offered her one—as long as she agreed to pose as someone else's fiancée. Whose? Well, Rob's actually....

Opposites attract Having fled to India to escape the painful disillusionment of one relationship, Bridget had no intention of embarking on another...especially not with someone as complex and dangerously attractive as Nicholas Stirling! While he was ruthless and sophisticated, Bridget was shy and gentle. To let down her guard to such a man would be pure folly. His talent was for seduction, not commitment. Nicholas might just break her heart again.

Regile is a zama-zama working illegally in an abandoned mine near Barberton. He has moved up the ranks and is now paid a salary to keep the other child workers in line. Towards the end of a three-month stint underground, a fourteen-year-old boy from Mozambique, Taiba, starts asking questions about their rescue. Taiba constantly reaffirms his belief that they will be saved: by the police, by the private security firms that guard the mines, or maybe even by the mythical Spike Maphosa. Regile knows that such hope is dangerous.

The past...Six years ago, Maria had been devastated by the brutal way in which she had been sacked from her first job--and all beacuse of Luke Scott.The present...Now Luke was back in her life...and this time his demands were far greater--he wanted her!The future...Maria was determined to fight the powerful attraction that existed between them--but Luke was so tempting, it seemed he would get what he wanted in the very near future....