Love Happens: The Omnibus — Christiane France

Bad Boy BluesBilly Duval and Sharon Lee Parker were teenage lovers-until Sharon went off to college and Billy's disregard for the law earned him a four-year sentence in the Federal penitentiary. They haven't seen one another in more than ten years, but now Sharon's back home for Billy's sister's wedding. She still loves Billy and she knows he loves her, but he's an ex-con who still likes to walk on the wild side. According to rumor, Billy tried to outrun the law in a stolen car as recently as a few months ago, and there's no way Sharon will give up a good job and a nice safe life for a man like that. Just One LookToni Peters rarely takes chances or tries new things, always sticking close to home and going along with the tried and the true. Until her old schoolfriend, Jane Doyle-who is currently working at a hotel in Paris, France-calls and suggests they take a month-long tour of Europe. It's the vacation they've always talked about but have never got around to. When Toni arrives in Paris, she discovers Jane has quit her job and moved south to another hotel in Marseille. Toni goes to Marseille and checks all the hotels, but to no avail. Jane seems to have disappeared off the planet-that is, until Toni receives an unsigned note telling her to be at Les Arbres in Cassis at noon the next day. Figuring the note is from Jane, Toni takes the bus to Cassis. Instead of finding Jane at Les Arbres, she finds Neil Trenton, a British cop. Blame it on FateWhile in England on family business, Kate had a three-day fling with a fellow American-a "ships that pass in the night" kind of thing. She never expected their paths to cross again, but three months later, Paul turns up unexpectedly in Kate's hometown. The feelings are definitely still there between them. She knows this is no simple coincidence, and she believes Fate is responsible for bringing them back together. except Paul has taken a teaching job at the same university where Kate is a student. A university that has a st