title: That Summer of Surrender
author: Caine, Rebecca
description: Even after her father's death, Perdita had always had a perfectly happy relationship with her attractive young stepmother Olivia. She was certainly no Cinderella!
  
  So when Olivia's chance of making a new life for herself came along, Perdita was the last person to stand in her way. But unfortunately for them both, the terms of Perdita's father's will posed a problem, a problem to which the insufferable Blake Hadwyn seemed to offer the only solution: that Perdita spend the few remaining months until she came of age in his care -- admittedly in the exotic surrounding of a Caribbean island.
  
  But that scarcely consoled Perdita. If only it had been anyone else but him!
  
  Hero: Blake Hadwyn
  Heroine: Perdita Craig