Worthings

I wake up in the hospital with no memory of the past six months. Now I live with a man who's practically a stranger, and I have no idea why. When my father died, I lost everything-family, career, friends, money, support. I remember the loss, not what came after, but evidently everything changed in the months I can't recall. Brilliant, scarred, aloof Arthur Worthing was nothing more than a friend of my dad's, but he must have felt sorry for me. He gave me a job and a place to live. He took care of me when no one else would. I know it's not that simple, however. There are secrets he won't tell me. There are truths hiding in the shadows of his two-hundred-year-old mansion. I'm feeling things I shouldn't feel for a completely inappropriate man, one who's spent his life putting up walls. If I'm not careful, I'll lose everything again. But certain things are inevitable. And amnesia isn't strong enough to hold back the heart, even if it means I fall in love with him twice.

To save my life, I agree to switch places with my identical twin sister. I have no other options left, and my sister simply wants to disappear. But now I'm forced to live her superficial, luxurious life and make sense of her strange and complicated relationship with William Worthing. He's wealthy and brilliant and disturbingly attractive, and now I'm living with him and pretending to be my sister. She always kept him at arm's length, but the more I get to know him, the closer I want to get. The last thing I should do is fall for him, but I'm not sure how I can help it. Our whole relationship is built on a lie, and the life and man I desperately want will never truly belong to me.

I used to be a cliché. A wild, selfish party girl with a rich daddy and an assortment of bad habits and addictions. I was famous for being bad and an expert at getting my way. Except with my bodyguard, Caleb, who was the only person I couldn't manipulate. After going through rehab, I've spent the past three years living a quiet life with my art and a few friends in a small town in Maine. I stay out of the spotlight and try to make up for my past mistakes. But I haven't seen Caleb since the worst day of my life, and I don't want to see him again. He reminds me of everything I did wrong. But when my family's stalker gets out of prison and turns his attention to me, I need extra protection, and Caleb has always been the best. So now I'm forced to confront the memories I've tried to forget and a lot of intense feelings for Caleb that I've never acknowledged before.

After spending six years as an assistant to reckless, entitled Edmund Worthing, I've finally had enough. I want more in my life than scrambling to fulfill his every whim and demand. He's got too much money and too little responsibility, and he never takes anything seriously. I want to do something worthwhile in my life, and Edmund Worthing will never be that. So I hand in my resignation letter. After we return from an extended cruise on his new yacht, I'm gone. The last thing I expect is to get caught in a sudden, devastating storm at sea, but now I'm stranded, alone on a deserted island with my obnoxious boss. He can't even pick out his own meal at a high-end restaurant. He'll be absolutely no help as we scrounge for food and shelter. But if we want to survive, he's all I've got.