Tender Deception

She'd been a naive young fool. No matter that Brant Wicker had gone on to Hollywood stardom. The night she'd thrown herself into his arms was the one night Vickie Langley was determined to forget.

She'd stayed closer to home, become a fine actress with an outstanding dinner-theater group in Sarasota. She never dreamed Brant would come back as a summer "guest star" until he stood center-stage in her life. Even as she played a brilliantly devoted Desdemona to his tormented Othello, she'd play an offstage role of ice and steel. She'd risk any deception to keep him from learning the truth -- the secret that revealed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, how very much she cared.