Whispers of the Heart — Jillian Fayre

Miracles can happen…if you can find them among the doubts.

Fledgling interior designer Kristine Maitland is glad her kindly boss thinks she's ready to take on one of the firm's biggest clients, but Kaitlyn isn't so sure. Especially when she meets the owner of the Florida beach house she's been assigned to renovate.

Handsome, powerful businessman Nicholas Kalen makes her knees shake, and it's not because of the nerves she's trying so hard to hide. That he wants to make his beach house comfortable for his injured father makes him all the more endearing.

Despite her determination to uphold her professional façade -- and not succumb to his smooth charm like some simpering female -- Kristine is inexorably drawn into a web of sensual pleasure the likes of which she's never known. And into a world completely out of step with her arts-and-blue-jeans soul.

Just how out of step becomes clear when a blonde from Nick's past reminds Kristine that a man like him has had his pick of women. And her own past reminds her that most men are not to be trusted…

This Retro Romance reprint was originally published in 1981 by Serenade Romance/Pocket Books.