Along came Christian
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Courtney Moore is a strong, beautiful and admirable nurse from Paris. Her life is going nowhere until she meets Christian Gray, a muscular, slender man with a passion for jam doughnuts.
Courtney takes an instant disliking to Christian and the tight-fisted and sinister ways he learnt during his years in England.
However, when a tiger tries to attack Courtney, Christian springs to the rescue. Courtney begins to notices that Christian is actually rather remarkable at heart.
But, the pressures of Christian's job as a teacher leave him blind to Courtney's affections and Courtney takes up star gazing to try an distract herself.
Finally, when peculiar lawyer, Tristan Parker, threatens to come between them, Christian has to act fast. But will they ever find the magical love that they deserve?
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