Used book – Scarlet Roses, Diana Palmer, Agnès Jaubert

Ever since losing his wife, the great love of his life, Garon Grier rarely spends time with women. So he doesn't even notice Grace Carver, who lives next door and alone. Why would she attract him, anyway? Besides the fervor with which, like him, she tends her roses, Grace has nothing to hold his gaze: too young, too shy, not sexy enough, no doubt... Only her freshness manages to move him. Until the day an individual, sadly known for years for assaulting young women and identifiable by the signature he leaves behind – a scarlet ribbon – reappears in the county. In these circumstances, Garon can't imagine standing idly by. Who knows if this individual isn't lurking around Grace's home? Driven by his protective instincts, and by a feeling he can't identify, Garon then orders Grace to move in with him...