Captive Heart - A Hawaiian Christmas Novella

<p> </p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They thought they knew the meaning of sacrifice. But the hardest choice is yet to come.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p><strong>Sugar heiress Leilani Manolo and French wine maker Aristide Laurent</strong> defied death and found magnetic attraction during a turbulent San Francisco winter but accepted a future together wasn't to be their destiny. </p><p>Leilani belongs in Honolulu heading the family business and caring for her dying guardian and Aristide must fulfil his promise as an award-winning vintner for one of California's rising wine ventures.</p><p>But living apart is even harder than resigning themselves to permanent separation.</p><p>And when Aristide learns Leilani is being pressured into a 'dynastic' marriage with one of the Hawaiian King's senior advisors he suspects bad family blood runs deep.</p><p>Aristide faces a torturous choice. Reveal the true extent of Lani's betrayal by someone close and risk life-long rejection or accept the match and see her lose everything she holds dear. Book #8 in the action-packed historical mystery series Of Gold & Blood. Romance against the odds.</p><p><br></p><p>Captive Heart </p>