A Promise Kept

She'd hoped never to see him again When Pippa accompanied her employer to Quinta de Estrella, his friend's home in Portugal, to research his latest book, she was appalled to discover the friend was Carlos de Alvarez. Several years earlier Carlos had come to England to see Pippa's father. And he'd encountered Pippa in a humiliating situation, one she'd since put behind her and fully intended to keep that way. Now she was forced to confront her past. Worse, she soon learned that her being at Carlos's estate was no coincidence. The austere, disapproving Carlos had some very definite plans for her....