Health, a challenging, successful career, her own comfortable home, holidays abroad, designer clothes, lots of friends. But Rosie Middleton didn't have a man.

Rosie had lost her heart once - with disastrous consequences. She wasn't likely to make the same mistake twice.

So, although Rosie would have liked a man for whom she could care, a man who would return that concern, she didn't give Nicholas Winchester a second thought when he reentered her life. In fact, Rosie responded with extreme caution.