Charmed
With the curse of the Saleri family all but vanquished, Caroline Saleri returns to the picturesque idyll of Sea Haven Island, South Carolina. There she plans to lose herself for a few months in low country bliss—helping to prepare her family’s home for sale, pursuing some advanced university courses…and daydreaming about the brooding, enigmatic professor of her masters-level anthropology class. Unfortunately, one detail remains to ensure the family curse is never invoked again. Caro is tasked to recover a collection of supposedly charmed costume jewelry from a local private museum—a simple afternoon's adventure. Then she recognizes the museum’s proprietor, and her life turns upside down.
Determinedly misanthropic Professor Simon Blake has long since kept the world at arm’s length. The one chink in his armor? His beloved grandparents and their eccentric collection of friends. But when one of his newest students shows up on his doorstep and turns out to be the woman his grandparents and their cronies have been talking about for more than eighty years—a real, live, fairytale countess, intent on breaking an ancient curse—he doesn’t know whether to throw her out, welcome her in, or call the cops.
One thing’s for sure…he’s in no mood to be CHARMED.