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A joyous novel of art, love, and one man’s unquenchable thirst for life, from one of America’s best loved authors.Sixty-year-old American painter Scumbler (‘Scum’ to his friends) makes a living by creating rentable apartments out of the most unlikely Parisian spaces. He spends his days jaunting around the Left Bank in Paris, stopping regularly to paint, and revelling in the art of creation and the remarkable characters he meets along the way: students, prostitutes, and craftsmen, like him. At night he returns to his wife and children. He is an undeniable success. He should be happy.And yet, Scumbler is pestered by the unavoidable symptoms of his age: the grey hair, the aches, the increasing waistline. Scumbler knows he must face up to the fact of his mortality, but he is adamant about doing so in his own inimitable way.

YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN…Which was fine with Eden–formerly Edna Rae–Harper, since after a humiliating incident involving high school heartthrob Travis Conroy, home was the last place she wanted to be. But her mother needed her, so here she was. And there was Travis Conroy–still as appealing as ever and still out of her league.Travis wasn't ever expecting to see mousy Edna Rae Harper again–and in a way he was right, since Eden, the shapely blond sophisticate before him, bore little resemblance to the dateless, bookish girl he remembered. He wanted her, pure and simple. But could he convince Monroe's most wayward daughter to come home…to him?

THE ONLY MAN WHO COULD SAVE HER…Special Forces agent Carter Rawlings was back – and Dani Marlow's world was spinning in his wake. The local arson attacks for which she was being blamed were only part of the problem. The feelings Carter's reappearance had ignited threatened far more dangerous territory – a past she tried to keep hidden, especially from him.With the trouble on her land and Carter's tantalizing presence, Dani had to think about her future. Did she want to keep avoiding the truth – that she loved Carter and wanted to make a life with him – or could she finally face the stakes head-on, deal with her enemies and seal her heart to that of the only man she's ever loved?