Used Book - By a Blazing Summer, Diana Palmer

When Christabel caught Judd’s eye on the beautiful actress who had come to shoot a film on their ranch, she felt the ground give way beneath her. So, what people were saying was true: Judd was in love with this woman, and the magnificent emerald she flaunted so arrogantly, he was the one who had given it to her...

But Judd was not free, at least not yet: five years earlier, he had married Christabel to save her from the guardianship of an alcoholic and brutal father. And, even if it was just a marriage of convenience, even if it was to be annulled soon, Christabel refused to accept that idea. Because a new feeling was emerging within her, an intense, magnificent love that had grown without her knowledge, and of which she suddenly had a revelation.

Overwhelmed by this discovery, disturbed by her desire for Judd, Christabel wondered: how could she turn Judd away from the superficial young beauty who seemed to fascinate him so much? How, above all, could she make him understand that she was no longer the fierce teenager he considered a sister, and that she had become a woman? A woman who vibrated with passion for him...