title: The Flame of Desire
author: Mortimer, Carole
description: Only Luke made her feel so alive!
  
  Sophie Bedford didn't like anything about Luke Vittorio--but she fell in love with him just the same.
  
  Luke was attractive to women; as a portrait painter there were many in his life. Worse, Sophie suspected he was having an affair with Rosemary, her stepmother. He was bossy and arrogant.
  
  Yet Sophie knew that no other man could arouse the fiery response in her that the magnetic Luke had. When he asked her to marry him, she accepted--hoping that someday his desire would turn to love!
  
  Hero: Luke Vittorio
  Heroine: Sophie Bedford