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During the meal, Debbie contrives that Walker and Skye should spend the following day together. Walker seizes the opportunity to get to know Skye better. 

Returning from Seattle after the discovery of a tanker full of chemicals, Walker seeks Skye out. She invites him to stay for dinner, and unable to deny her feelings any longer, makes love with him. They spend the next three days together. But Walker departs suddenly, when he learns his office is Seattle is broken into, leaving Skye on her own. All Skye’s old insecurities come back to haunt her, and she telephones Debbie, who pushes her into revealing what happened last year. But the horrors of those events are such that Skye passes out on the bathroom floor. 

In the meantime John, Skye’s London-based business partner, is experiencing problems with the new software he and Skye have developed. He contacts her, and Skye agrees to check the code. When Walker returns he finds Skye staring at a screen of computer code. He immediately accuses her of being involved, but despite Skye’s protests of innocence, he doesn’t believe her, and keeps her captive in the cabin. John, anxious to find out what’s happening, arrives from England and reveals Skye’s true identity. Walker asks for their help, and reluctantly Skye agrees, on condition that Walker has nothing further to do with her once the investigation is over. While Walker is interviewing the manager of a waste management plant, Skye makes her escape back to England, her emotional life once more in tatters. 

In pursuit of the eco-criminals, Walker is severely injured, and it’s seven months before he is able to follow Skye.  He goes to London , on the pretext of taking Skye back to Seattle with him for the court hearing, but is confronted by John, who tells him Skye has agreed to marry him.  Skye refuses to accompany Walker, who tells her if she marries John, she will regret it for the rest of her life.  Skye is in a quandary.  Does she marry for security or does she go with Walker, the man she truly loves?

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Three Weeks Last Spring

What drives computer expert Skye Dunbar to return to the scene of a disastrous relationship last year? That’s what she has to find out over the course of a 120,000-word contemporary romance, set in the scenic San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest. You see, Skye desperately wants someone to love her, but finds it almost impossible to put the events of the previous year behind her - that is, until she meets a mysterious marine biologist named Jedediah Walker.

But Walker has problems of his own. First, he’s been called into investigate the incidence of dead fish washing up on the islands beaches and second, he’s completely forgotten he’s agreed to let the cabin on his land…to Skye Dunbar, who doesn’t realise that he is her landlord. Skye doesn’t like Walker from the moment she lays eyes on him. He feels the same. But that’s about to change. 

When Walker subsequently discovers that the fish contain a high concentration of toxic chemicals, he immediately suspects they are being illegally dumped at sea. And later, when someone hacks into his computer, he realises it is no coincidence. Suddenly the investigation has become more personal. Suspicious that Skye is somehow involved, Walker resolves to find more about her.

Distrustful of men in general, and Walker in particular, Skye does her utmost to ensure she stays out of his way. But Walker has an uncanny knack of turning up when least expected. A storm hits the islands, taking out the power; it's just the excuse Walker needs to visit Skye. When she opens the door, sleepy-eyed and dressed only in a long T-shirt, Walker realises that he is strongly attracted to his sexy auburn-haired tenant.

Debbie, Skye’s friend, joins her at the cabin for a long weekend. On their last evening together, they arrange to have dinner in town, and unintentionally find themselves in the same restaurant as Walker. 

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