Harlequin Presents October 2021--Box Set 1 of 2 by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

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So this was Roisin O’Keefe, the must-be-kept-secret Tempest-Vane sister.

Muzi slid a pair of designer sunglasses over his eyes and, taking a long sip of his beer—his mouth was suddenly as dry as the Namib Desert—eyed her, knowing his dark lenses would hide his scrutiny.

She was—crap—breath-stealingly beautiful.

Her hair was long, a fall of loose curls, and an intense shade of dark brown without a hint of red or gold. It was the perfect complement to her creamy, pale skin and her drop-him-to-the-floor blue eyes.

Blue, it was such an insipid description. They were the color of ancient Chinese vases or old-as-hell Egyptian artifacts. Of ancient tiles in mosques all over the Middle East.

Blue had always been his favorite color.

Pulling his gaze off her face, he allowed himself the immense pleasure of letting it trail down her long and lithe body. Her breasts were perfection, her stomach flat, her legs smooth and slightly tanned. And those pretty pale pink toenails, and the delicate ring on her middle digit, killed him.

Muzi did an internal eye roll at his body’s reactions. He was thirty-four, had slept with many beautiful women, and it had been a long time since he’d had this sort of reaction to a woman, any woman.

But there was no denying it, she was as sexy as hell...

And solidly off-limits.

She was his best friend’s sister. And, since she was now the owner of St. Urban, one the oldest vineyards in the Cape Winelands, Ro was also someone he wanted to do business with. No, he needed to do business with her...

He needed her vineyard to neutralize Susan Matthews-Reed.

As it always did when he thought of Susan, his gut roiled. She’d been, without exaggeration, the bane of his life for...well, most of his life.

He’d met Mimi Matthews when his poor, far too young mother sent him to live with his maternal grandmother, Lu, who’d worked as Mimi’s long-time housekeeper at La Fontaine, Mimi’s Cape Dutch house in the Franschhoek Valley, an hour’s drive from Cape Town.

He’d been a fatherless three-year-old—he never knew who sired him—confused by his change of circumstances and missing his mother. He’d left a dirt-poor, rural village for one of the wealthiest areas in the country. But with his grandmother Lu he found stability and comfort. Lu and Mimi showered him with love and affection, and he’d blossomed under their attention.

A few months after his eighth birthday, Mimi’s only child, Susan, divorced her husband and she and her two sons, Rafe and Keane, moved into La Fontaine. He’d been thoroughly excited to have boys his age in the house and he and Keane immediately bonded. Rafe, older than him, was cool but Susan...well, she was another story.

His grandmother died when he was ten and, along with feeling grief-stricken, he’d also been terrified, not knowing where he was going to live or who was going to look after him. After Lu’s funeral, Mimi sat him down, told him his mother signed away all parental rights to him—as an adult, Muzi suspected money had changed hands—and informed him, and the family, that his place was with her.

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