Beloved Stranger — Meg Hudson

EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM WAS A MYSTERY

As an anthropologist, Sara Westcott had come to San Francisco to research the Russian community, not to fall in love. Then she met Alexei Varentsov.

Alexei was an enigma in so many ways. He spoke little of his past and never of the future. Sara's mind held a thousand reservations -- what if he were a spy, a fugitive -- but her heart was immediately lost to this strong, gentle man.

She would live for the moment and not think of the inevitable -- the day she would wake up and find Alexei gone....