An Expert Teacher // Hired by the Playboy

He'd taught her how to kiss. But did he know about love?

All her life, Gemma's parents had stressed the "right sort" of people. Only once, at fifteen, had Gemma slipped past their biased protection and chosen a secret friend for herself--itinerant laborer Luke O'Rourke.

Now, ten years later, Luke was back--a wealthy, cultured, new business associate of her father's with a surprising job offer for Gemma. One she might have refused, feeling sure Luke would have fulfilled his youthful promise of sexual expertise.

But her parents' objections sealed it--Gemma was off to the Caribbean as personal assistant to a well-known womanizer!
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Mills & Boon UK Version

As a teenager, Gemma Parish had slipped away from the misery of her parents' snobbish social climbing to be with Luke O'Rourke. Their friendship was her secret - it had to be, because Luke was a penniless construction worker and definitely not the sort of companion her parents would approve. Now, years later, Luke had come back to Cheshire - rich, cultured, but still unsuitable. For by now, Gemma was sophisticated enough to be ashamed of their secret friendship... and especially of how it had ended!

Hero: Luke O'Rourke
Heroine: Gemma Parish