Divorce solution

It wasn't that Nicky hadn't loved her husband - quite the opposite. By leaving, Nicky had hoped to provoke some kind of reaction. Blake Chandler was the strong and silent type. He didn't show much emotion behind those impassive gray eyes.

Karen van der Zee is the author of 34 romance novels published by Harlequin and Silhouette, one of which won a RITA Award.

She grew up in the Netherlands where she developed a taste for travel. She married an American globetrotter and has cooked, shopped, mothered, traveled and written romance novels and non-fiction stories in Africa, Asia, the US, the Middle East, and Europe. She now lives in France.