title: Surrender to the Past
author:  Carole Mortimer 
description: Carole Mortimer was born in England, the youngest of three children. She began writing in 1978, and has now written over one hundred and seventy books for Harlequin Mills and Boon. Carole has six sons, Matthew, Joshua, Timothy, Michael, David and Peter. She says, Im happily married to Peter senior; were best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.
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  An Unwilling Desire
  
  
  
  
  
  CAROLE MORTIMER (1984)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  An Unwilling Desire
  
  
  
  
  
  CAROLE MORTIMER
  
  
  
  
  
  Of course Holly wasn't in love with her boss, James Benedict. She was just
  sorry for him - who wouldn't be, when he was confined to a wheelchair after an
  accident and his marriage was heading for disaster as a result? And anyway,
  Holly liked James and was prepared to do all she could to help him. So what
  right had his brother, the objectionable Zack Benedict, to be so suspicious
  about it all? And who was he to think the worst of Holly, when it was fairly
  plain that he himself was involved with James's wife Maxine?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  '.. . And I hope you continue to read and enjoy my books. You know the rest,
  Holly,' James dismissed with an abruptness that showed he was fast losing
  interest in the mail they were in the process of answering.
  
  
  
  
  
  She looke