As time goes by, she finds herself falling for the Baron's charm, but not before she berates him for his ignoble behavior. Will he be able to handle the sizzling passion?Isabel, surprisingly finds out that not everything is as it seems in the Baron's estate. But with every moment he shares with the passionate Isabel, Baron's bad manners soften into admiration.and more. When seeing Isabel and intrigued by her reckless personality, he offers a condition in return she must be a companion to his ailing sister, and live in his estate until he says otherwise. Will she eventually be the one to heal his broken soul?The legends about his bad behavior make the Baron, a person to be feared.

Fierce like a tiger, she storms into the Baron's estate to regain her pride and property, but instead of the scandalous scoundrel she expected to meet, she finds a broken man trying to hide his scars. Isabel's world turns world upside down when she finds out her brother lost everything in gambling with the most notorious Baron in town. They soon discover disturbing truths that could either change lives – or end them. But they discover more secrets on their journey from comfortable southern England to an untamed and unpredictable southern Africa, where the world of Mlimo, the Matabele spiritual leader still reigns for some.James & Tara are drawn into a dangerous chase, pitted against a proud enemy they neither know of nor comprehend. Clues left them by Great Aunt Nellie who recently died point them in the direction of the treasure. although many have tried.Loves, courage and loyalties are tested across a century of intrigue but James and Tara Braughton decide to solve the family riddle by travelling to southern Africa at a time of political change. Rumours of a great treasure of diamonds, buried deep in the African bush has swirled around the Braughton clan for generations and an old painting holds clues to these secrets no one understands. One family is from the Matabele people defending their very existence and the other from the colonial 'intruders' intent on domination of a wild land.

In this adventurous treasure hunt, two families’ secrets collide across generations and continents. He lives in a housing development where all the houses are connected by an underground tunnel system and the heating and cooling ducts have viewing ports whereby Ron can look out into the houses of the residents…I hope you enjoy reading these stories.All families have secrets, but some secrets are deadly. The Ron series is a group of stories where Ron is the main character. This is the prelude to the RON series of stories.

A Bet with a Baron by Tammy Andresen