“Professor.”
He must have recognized her up on the receiving deck. His unruffled smile brought forth the dimple that summoned the same powerful attraction she’d felt for him five years earlier. “It’s a small world,” he observed calmly. “How are you?”
“Wow.” Unable to summon a glib reply, she accepted his handshake while registering the warmth and firmness of his grasp. “You grew up,” she stated stupidly. She tried to take in all of him. The intelligence brimming in his eyes that she had cherished in him as a student was still apparent. His unflappable, thoughtful demeanor was the same, too, but the rest of him looked completely different.
“And you look exactly the same.” He spoke with even more confidence than he’d had in his early twenties.
A prick of self-consciousness had her pulling her hand back. More likely the breakup of her marriage had aged her beyond her thirty-three years, making the six-year gap between them more of a gulf than ever.
Boarding a cruise ship bound for Mexico, Jeremiah “Bullfrog” Winters is struck by a terrifying premonition. At the same time, he runs into the only wo
man he has ever loved . . . and lost.
Emma Albright might still teach Romantic Lit, but life has taught her there’s no such thing as everlasting love. While she made a promise to enjoy her vacation, she has no intention
of falling for the man who captivated her years earlier.
Persuading Emma to love again becomes Jeremiah’s newest mission. But when violence disrupts their magical vacation, wooing her takes a back seat to survival. Love may be the only weapon powerful enough to save them, if only Emma can bring herself to believe in it.