Summer Of My Secret Angel — Anna Katmore

He was never a part of my plan…

Twelve years ago, when my mother chose her violent lover over me, my end of the deal was a room in an orphanage. Thank God, in six weeks, I'll be eighteen and free!

Except, a certain stupid sweater in my backpack -- okay, okay! I didn't actually pay for it -- lands me at court. And, look at that…my mother is back, too.

I want to keel over dead when the judge sentences me to time in France with her. Actually, I take that back, I want her to keel over dead! And then somebody says she has cancer. Wow, I've never had a wish fulfilled this fast. But until that happens -- or I turn eighteen, whichever comes first -- I'm required to work in some unknown family's vineyards.
Yeah, right…

France, however, holds another surprise for me. Julian.
He doesn't miss a chance to provoke me, and for some reason he seems to foresee each step of my brilliant escape plan. What the hell -- ?

But then he makes a tiny mistake. And suddenly, I'm confronted with a secret that makes the little hair at the back of my neck stand on end.