The Pride of His Life

From her cameo brooch to her canopy bed, Victoria Langford was primly old-fashioned -- hardly wisecracking, macho Serge Zhdanov's type. But a tumble over tangled leashes in Boston's Public Garden led to a startling kiss...and an attraction more potent than puppy love!

As the unlikely pair teamed up to, bamboozle dog-napping loan sharks, passion bridged the rift between hex aristocratic airs and his immigrant pride. The fly in the ointment was Tori's beloved brother -- Serge's sworn enemy -- who challenged their proof that opposites attract with mother adage: blood is thicker than water.