The Man from Nowhere — Rebecca Stratton

He was a stranger, a man of mystery

Linsie bitterly resented Jean-Pierre Chardin, the disturbingly enigmatic Frenchman who had bought her grandfather's prosperous Loire vineyards.

"Why is it you have such passionate hatred for me?" he asked, bewildered and hurt.

And Linsie, engaged to quiet undemonstrative Andre, couldn't answer honestly. All she knew was that encounters with Jean-Pierre left her restless - and with the feeling that something very important was missing from her life.