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Katie insists the romance is real and unwavering, while Camilla challenges the unanswered absence after a flight and the suspicious gaps surrounding Spiro’s story. As Camilla recalls their Easter in Greece, she exposes the risks of a holiday seduction, the family background Spiro claimed, and the emotional cost that letters and delays have already brought to Katie.","“How dare you speak to me like that?”  \nHis voice was molten.  \nCamilla met his gaze. Eyes dark as obsidian, she thought with a strange clarity, and as hard as flint. But with a small flame burning…  \nJust as she was burning inside.  \nShe drew a deep angry breath.“Because it wasn’t me that you…seduced and abandoned in Athens. It was my sister, Katie.” A sob rose in her throat.“And you can’t even remember what she looks like.”  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSARA CRAVEN was born in South Devon, England, and grew up surrounded by books, in a house by the sea. After leaving grammar school she worked as a local journalist covering everything from flower shows to murders. She started writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon in 1975. Apart from writing, her passions include films, music, cooking and eating in good restaurants.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBooks by Sara Craven  \nHARLEQUIN PRESENTS 1549—DARK RANSOM 1640—DAWN SONG 1708—TOWER OF SHADOWS 1761—THUNDER ON THE REEF  \nDon’t miss any of our special offers. Write to us at the following address for information on our newest releases.  \nHarlequin Reader Service  \nU. S.: 3010 Walden Ave., P.O. Box 1325, Buffalo, NY 14269  \nCanadian: P.O. Box 609, Fort Erie, Ont L2A 5X3  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDARK APOLLO  \nSara Craven  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \n‘BUT he loves me.’  \n‘I wouldn’t count on it.’ Camilla Dryden spoke more brusquely than she’d intended, and repented instantly as she saw her sister ’s eyes cloud with bewildered hurt.  \n‘Katie, love,’ she went on more gently,‘you hardly know each other. It was a holiday romance. Just—one of those things.’  \nShe could hardly believe her own ears. One cliché” was following another, and she wasn’t surprised to see Katie shaking her head.  \n‘It wasn’t like that. I knew as soon as I met Spiro that there would never be anyone else. And he feels just the same about me.’  \nCamilla winced inwardly.‘Then why wasn’t he on that flight? Or any of today’s other flights, for that matter?’  \n‘I don’t know. Something must have happened to prevent him—delay him.’  \nCamilla could make a cynical guess what that ‘something’ might be. Spiridion Xandreou had probably remembered, just in time, that he had a fiancée—or even a wife—already.  \nThis is what comes, she thought seething, of allowing an impressionable eighteen-year-old to spend Easter in Greece.  \nIt had seemed a perfectly acceptable invitation at the time. Lorna Stephens, Katie’s best friend, was going to Athens to visit her aunt, married to a Greek businessman. The two girls had been working hard for their public examinations, and deserved a break from their studies.  \nHow could Camilla have guessed that Lorna’s aunt was the kind of irresponsible idiot who’d allow her niece and her niece’s friend to be chatted up by personable Greek waiters?  \nIf only it had stopped at chat, Camilla thought with a silent groan. Or if Katie had been sophisticated enough to realise she was being spun a line by an experienced charmer.  \nOn her return, she’d informed her elder sister that, although she was still prepared to take her A levels, they no longer mattered because she was  \nengaged to be married.  \nCamilla had taken a deep, steadying breath, and done some gentle probing.  \nWhat had emerged was hardly reassuring. Spiro, it seemed, worked ina marvellous and famous restaurant where Katie had gone for a meal with the family party. Spiro had served at their table, and the following evening Katie and Lorna had managed to return to the restaurant alone.  \n‘Of course, he’s not really just a waiter.’ Katie’s eyes had been full of stars, and a new womanly awareness which had struck a chill to Camilla’sheart.‘His family own the restaurant, and masses of other things beside—hotels, even a shipping line. From what Spiro says, they must be amazingly wealthy. 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