Susan Alexander Bücher

She loved Max too much to marry himSophie Carter was good at her job, the best her agency had to offer. When the von Hartogs, an eminent Austrian family, needed a substitute nanny, she was asked to fill in.Sophie never socialized with her employers. Maximilian von Hartog, however, uncle of her two charges, refused to take no for an answer.In the quaint snow-covered village of Kitzbuhl, Sophie fell in love with the determined baron. But when Max offered marriage she refused. There was so much he didn't know about her--so much she didn't want him to know.

She needed a permanent love Kate had been practically engaged to a charming young Frenchman when she learned that another man held a temporary lease on her future. Apparently, wealthy film director Blake Templeton had been financing her family's colossal debts for years. And before her father's death an arrangement had been made for Blake to become Kate's husband in name only, until Kate was old enough to know her own mind. Kate couldn't see what Blake stood to gain from such an unsatisfactory arrangement, since he'd always had his pick of the world's most glamorous women on his terms... without marriage.

Meet Eve Paxton, New Yorker transplanted to London and kickass divorce attorney to the rich and famous-at least as long as she's had her coffee and hormone replacement therapy. Eve's clients are not the only ones who have problems. It's time for the annual meeting of Eden Partners, the company Eve founded with Adam Adamchuk, her ex--ex-partner, ex-lover, ex-cohabiter. Eve still owns half of Eden and she's finding that there's more than one snake lurking in what once was her own personal paradise. Eve soon has her hands full with gender-bending rock stars, party girls with allergies to silicon, super models caught in the wrong hot tub, Vietnamese mail order brides, flirtatious ambassadors and adulterous football strikers. At the same time, she's unexpectedly able to see Adam get his comeuppance at last. Which is what she wants-or does she? Contains adult language.