Longtime friends and business partners Alfredo and Katherine have built a New York architectural empire together. But the secret flame of twenty years is about to catch their lives on fire.
Longtime friends and business partners Alfredo and Katherine have built a New York architectural empire together. Now both middle-aged, they're about to embark on their boldest building project ever. They don't realize that one long-time enemy will use it to do what no one has ever done, split them apart. But the splitting apart drives them together in a way they never thought possible, as the secret flame of twenty years catches their lives on fire.
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“How dare you do this to me? You tested your feelings for me,” he said. “Feelings you were so
terrified of telling me about, you let him blackmail you.”
“I was trying to save our business!”
“You were trying to stay in control, same as always!”
Her mouth dropped open and didn’t close for a long moment. She walked toward him. “I have to stay
in control? We don’t call you the raja for nothing!”
He walked closer, until they were face to face. “Oh, I know we both have to be in control,
Catarina. We’re both just as smart, just as stubborn, just as strong. In fact, the one thing in
our lives we can’t control is each other. Oh, God, but it would be so hot to try.”
She didn’t back away an inch. "Take your best shot, Funcilla."
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Edward Rutherford is prepared to do just about anything to escape an arranged marriage to a woman he despises. But his brilliant plan to feign insanity has some rather unwanted consequences...
