title: This Time for Us
author: Stirling, Elaine K.
description: HE MADE HER LIFE WORTH LIVING
  
  Sylvie Castellano was not your run-of-the-mill chemical engineer. She had a vibrancy all her own. And her special charm was not lost on Russ McTaggart. When Sylvie walked into Russ's Vancouver workshop and bluntly asked for work, they both knew she'd walked into his life for good.
  
  Sylvie loved the intricate scale models Russ designed, and she loved Russ. The gentle giant of a man fascinated her. Yet Sylvie sensed Russ was uneasy around her and wondered why she was piecing together little fences instead of getting on with her career.
  
  But the truth was something Sylvie didn't know herself....