One night to win back his wife!
Can Hayley resist Cristosâs seductive charms?
After the demise of her marriage, Hayley fled to nurse her broken heart. Now sheâs back to ask her husband, Cristos Theofanis, for a divorceâbut he has other ideas! When a storm hits and theyâre stranded together, Cristos has one night to prove himself. Can Hayley resist the temptation of Cristosâs kiss or will she find herself back in his arms?
KANDY SHEPHERD swapped a career as a magazine editor for a life writing romance. She lives on a small farm in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia, with her husband, daughter, and lots of pets. She believes in love at first sight and real-life romanceâthey worked for her! Kandy loves to hear from her readers. Visit her at kandyshepherd.com.
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07724-8
STRANDED WITH HER GREEK TYCOON
© 2018 Kandy Shepherd
Published in Great Britain 2018
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To my dear friend Anne Yeates and her clever boys, for introducing me to the historic university town of Durham in Northern Englandâthe inspiration for my hero and heroineâs past.
CHAPTER ONE
CRISTOS THEOFANIS HAD made such a monumental mess of his own marriage, he found it impossible to share in the joy as he watched his favourite cousin and his wife renew their wedding vows. Seeing their happiness in each other, the intimate smiles shared by a man and a woman deeply in love, made him fist his hands at the memories of what he had lost.
But he was careful to keep in place the mask he chose to present to the worldâhappy, without-a-care Cristos, unaffected by the losses that secretly haunted him. His pain was his own to keep all to himself.
The renewal ceremony had been held in the tiny white chapel perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the turquoise waters of the Ionian sea on his cousinâs privately owned island of Kosmimo. Now the happy couple was flocked by joyous well-wishers as they spilled out of the chapel. Cristos stood alone by a stunted cypress tree, marooned on his own black cloud of dark thoughts, his face aching from the effort of forcing smiles he didnât feel.
Of course he wished his cousin well, but Cristos was haunted by memories of his own wedding five years ago in a register office in the medieval city of Durham in the north of England. He had looked down at Hayley, his bride, with pride and adoration and a wondering disbelief that such an amazing woman had agreed to share her life with him. In return, her eyes had shone with love and trust as sheâd offered him both her body and, more importantly, her heart. A priceless gift. One that had been wrenched away from him.