***** B.R.A.G. MEDALLION HONOREE & Awesome Indies Approved Destiny: ‘The predetermined or inevitable path a person must follow.’ When nineteen year-old Lili McIntyre decides to trade her California summer for a mid-winter visit to Australia, it’s in hope of finding inspiration and direction in the country where her father was born. She’s nervous about her first overseas trip, yet excited about spending time with her aunt and embarking on what her mother insists is “an opportunity of a lifetime”. But when Lili arrives in Melbourne the first thing she finds is the last thing she’s looking for—a brooding man who makes her heart race every time she sees him. Enticed by his dark, seductive eyes Lili ignores her better judgement and finds herself drawn into a relationship that will test her very beliefs about life, reality and fantasy—and things that she thought only existed in nightmares. Will Lili succumb to the allurement of this dark and sensuous stranger? And if so, does she have what it takes to follow the treacherous path that leads through his world of Absent Shadows? Author Biography: S M Spencer grew up reading the romantic suspense works of incredible authors such as Daphne du Maurier and Mary Stewart. Their books stirred in her a passion that would last a lifetime—to write stories that would stay with readers long after they’d finished the books. Although S M Spencer grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area she now lives in Australia and writes clean romance, mystery and fantasy books from the home that she shares with her husband, horses, cats and dogs. Read more