THE LATIN LOVER'S SECRET CHILD

Jane Porter

Harlequin Presents #2358

ISBN 0-373-12358-2

November 2003

Category Romance

Lucio Cruz gets a second chance to make his marriage work when he's called to help in the recovery of his soon to be ex-wife, Anabella Galvan Cruz. After contracting encephalitis while on an antiques buying trip in China, Anabella awoke from a medically-induced coma with partial amnesia.

Lucio doesn't know how he'll bear such close proximity to the woman who was once the very air he breathed and who thinks that they were still married, but he knows he'll go through hell if she needs him. As Anabella slowly regains her memory, their love becomes even stronger, but can it withstand Anabella's painful and possibly truthful assertion that the child she bore before they married did not miscarry, but survived?

Jane Porter puts her characters through the emotional wringer, and THE LATIN LOVER'S SECRET CHILD is no exception. Porter's keyword is intensity, and this exceptional entry in the Galvan Brides series is intense to the nth degree. Ms.Porter is becoming an expert at writing sympathetic and believable alpha heroes. Lucio Cruz is one of her best. THE LATIN LOVER'S SECRET CHILD and December's THE SPANIARD'S PASSION are without doubt Ms Porter's most superb Presents so far.