My Secret Life #36

A young woman engaged to marry her steady, good-hearted fiancé Charlie finds herself restless on the eve of their wedding, haunted by dreams of adventure and romance. When a mysterious adventurer aboard a boat called the Buccaneer mistakes her for someone else and pulls her into his arms, she discovers the swashbuckling excitement she's always imagined—but faces a choice between the safe life she's promised and the thrilling unknown.

A young woman raised in a French convent finds herself far from civilization on a honeymoon hunting expedition in French Equatorial Africa with her much older husband, Louis Mantaine—and growing increasingly drawn to Mark Denton, a younger man joining the party. As the group ventures deeper into the jungle, tensions simmer between the three men, and a mysterious wound begins to warp the behavior of their white hunter guide, Hal, setting the stage for a dark reckoning in the wilderness.

Amy is engaged to sweet, dependable Dan, but when a charming stranger named Bart Marlowe gives her a ride into town, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the excitement and romance he represents—so much so that she breaks her engagement to pursue him. As Amy gets caught up in the whirlwind of dating Bart, she begins to hear troubling whispers about his true nature, forcing her to confront what she really wants from love and where her heart truly belongs.

Flora believes she's found the man of her dreams in Andy Calhoun, but her overwhelming fear of losing him gradually transforms her love into obsessive jealousy that poisons their relationship. As suspicion and insecurity drive her to spy on his every move, Flora must reckon with whether her need to control his heart will push him away for good.