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from New York more than she’d realized. At least in Fiji, there’d be no need to look over her shoulder and wonder who might be watching her, wondering if she was the lucky woman who’d just won a fortune. The men on Dream Girl would be there for a different reason—to find true love or to find fame. Sure, they knew her story, and her bank balance. But they didn’t need her money.
    Each man could brag of his own success. She’d been briefed by the show’s producers on the bachelors they’d selected for her. Her bachelors included a millionaire businessman, a professional football player, a doctor, even a European count. Men she’d never have met in her previous incarnation as an impoverished librarian. Melody straightened her shoulders and moved ahead in line. Maybe, just maybe, she would find her soul mate. She hardly dared let herself think that way, but why not? Stranger things had happened—like a small town girl winning the lottery and getting on a reality TV show, for instance. Somewhere in the world, her true love waited. She just had to find him. For all she knew, he could be the handsome man who’d just been admiring her.
    Unfortunately, bachelor number one must have lost interest already. He gazed steadily ahead and not at her. Melody studied him covertly. Did he have a girlfriend? Maybe even a wife and kids. Sugar’s pointy elbow in her side jagged her back to reality.
    “You’re next, hon,” her busty companion said.
    The airline attendant scowled at her, clearly not pleased that she’d held up the line. “Miss! Ticket, please.”
    “Oops, sorry, daydreaming.” At the same time Melody plopped her paperwork down, Ann’s gold cross fell off her neck and onto the counter. She quickly scooped it up, dropped it in her purse and made a mental note to check the clasp. If it had fallen off elsewhere, it probably would have been lost.
    She was whisked through the check-in process with plenty of time to kill before their flight was called, so they decided to look for a ladies room, then a place where Sugar could buy gum. Melody cast a quick glance over her shoulder to the handsome stranger, but he stood at the counter engrossed in airline business. She’d never see him again. An unexpected pang of regret tightened her belly. Just as quickly, she shrugged it off. Talk about the world’s fastest infatuation! Dream Girl’s man-hunting premise must be rubbing off on her.
    When they located their gate, Melody was more than ready to spend the rest of the time reading. Sugar liked to talk, and she’d been chattering nonstop about the salon industry. Melody had learned more than she needed to know about perms and hair color. She settled into a chair and pulled a book out of her tote before placing the canvas bag on the floor.
    Sugar turned to her and blew a big pink bubble from between her fire engine red lips. The bubble popped and Sugar grinned. “If you don’t mind, hon, I’m gonna go hang out by the window and look at the planes.”
    Melody nodded. Thankful for a little quiet time, she slipped on her reading glasses and buried her nose in her book. But she’d barely cracked the cover when footsteps sounded behind her.
    “Do you mind if I sit here?”
    The thick, European, and utterly delicious accent poured into Melody’s ears. She looked up into the deepest chocolate eyes she’d ever seen. A rush of recognition jolted her from her book. The handsome stranger from check-in. Of average height, his thickly muscled physique was anything but average. His ash-blond curls fell over his forehead, shading finely sculptured features. His full, sensuous lips curved in the hint of a smile, and Melody had to make it a point not to stare. “Handsome” didn’t do him justice; “beautiful” came closer.
    She whipped off her glasses and kicked her tote out of his way. “Please…sit.”
    “Thank you. I hope I’m not interrupting your reading.” As he sat beside her, he leaned over to see the title of her