There is always a price for
cheating Death.

Chelsea Porter has always been fascinated by the sea, despite the fact that her great great-grandmother nearly drowned in it as a young, pregnant woman. Believing the story of her ancestor's remarkable escape from the depths to have been one of her grandfather's tall tales, Chelsea doesn't bother reading the old diaries tucked away in her attic, so she knows nothing of the promise Rebecca Mallory gave to the mysterious man who saved her; a promise that she would willingly forfeit her own life if he would spare the life of her unborn child.

Unfortunately, fate has a way of keeping track of promises like that, and when Chelsea meets Nicolas Demitry—a darkly handsome artist who paints haunting pictures of the sea-she is finally acquainted with her ancestor's remarkable story. But even more unbelievable, is the fact that Nicolas Demitry is the man who pulled Rebecca from the depths—and that he's come back now to collect on that promise, because the balance of life must be maintained.

There is always a price for cheating Death…

Lovely stained glass artist Kate Pedigrew had no idea why the desire to own a spinning wheel had suddenly become such a passion in her life. Nor did she expect to find just what she was looking for in an out of the way antique shop in rural Vermont. But from the moment she brought the spinning wheel home, Kate knew there was something special about it.

British antiquities expert Cole Beresford was looking for a spinning wheel too, but unlike Kate, he knew exactly what he was after. He'd spent the last ten years searching for the legendary Lockton spinning wheel; an ancient wheel rumoured to possess mystical powers. And when all evidence seems to point to it having ended up in a small antique shop in Vermont, Cole set off to find it.

Kate and Cole meet at the home of a mutual friend, and the attraction between them is instantaneous. But Cole knows his priority has to be on finding the spinning wheel and on the woman who bought it. He has to convince her to sell it back to him before an unscrupulous art dealer, a man who will stop at nothing to possess the fabled antique, finds them. Because Cole knows there are only two ways the spinning wheel can change hands. The first is by trade. The second is by death.

Things that go bump in the night seldom turn out to be harmless-let alone handsome and eligible! But when Maggie O'Malley is awakened unexpectedly on the first night of a dream vacation in a luxury ski chalet, she's shocked to find herself face to face with an alarmingly attractive man. Even more startling is his claim that she's the intruder!