THE BILLIONAIRE'S SECRETS

A fast-paced contemporary romance set in the starkly beautiful landscape of Newfoundland that reimagines Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre while delivering a few twists of its own.

When Chloe Winters answers an advertisement seeking a private tutor for a six-year-old girl, little does she know it means relocating from metropolitan Boston to an isolated mansion on a windswept cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Nor does she realize the little girl's widower father is Gaelan Byrne, a billionaire whose dark, brooding sexiness has brought him as much fame as his money. But Chloe, shocked by his coldness toward his daughter, vows to remain unmoved by both his fortune and good looks – a vow she soon finds impossible to keep. Gaelan Byrne, a man who has been dragged to hell and back by women before, is none too happy to discover the matronly retired teacher he hoped to hire turns out to be the beautiful, caring Chloe. But how can he fire her when the daughter he is incapable of loving adores her? He vows to keep the relationship strictly professional – a vow he soon finds impossible to keep. While the attraction they feel soon engulfs them with all the intensity of a spring storm, the secrets Gaelan keeps make any chance for happiness seem as remote as the windswept cliffs of Newfoundland. The Billionaire's Secrets was self-published on Amazon.com in June 2012 to rave reviews: "an epic backdrop... a grand, romantic book." It sold 15,000 copies in its first three months. MEADOW TAYLOR is the pen name for two internationally published authors of historical fiction.