title: Entwined Destinies
author: Wayne, Rachel
description: A California golden girl, Laura Gerard found perfect happiness in New York City as an up-and-coming children's book illustrator and loving wife... until her husband's tragic death tore her life apart.
  
  Now, on Santa Barbara's balmy coast, she meets cocky, mesmerizing Jon Austen, whose simple caress fills her with yearning as hot as the torrid summer sun. Secretly, she longs to remain forever with this man who awakens her slumbering desires. But how can she give up her life in the city... and the career she s struggled to establish... for Jon--who promises nothing more than fleeting nights locked in his fierce embrace?