Get both of Elaine Forder's romance novels, Beyond Gold and A Higher Love, as a set!
 
Beyond Gold
 
During the 2004 Olympics, American diver, Michael Weiss, and his equally athletic mother, Jordana, find themselves embroiled in romance, conspiracy and betrayal as their stay in Athens becomes much more than a once-in-a-lifetime competition.
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Framed for a crime he did not commit, Michael is then kidnapped before his gold medal event. Now forced to rely on their resourcefulness, his mother and teammates struggle to decipher the mystery that has entangled the mother and son since arriving in Athens. Not only Michael's chances at a first place win, but even his life, may depend on it.
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In the end, the true prize is not the gold, but what lies beyond.
 
A Higher Love
 
 
After years of planning this trip, 22-year-old Catherine finally arrives in Rome. Now liberated from her sheltered existence in the USA, she is determined to experience Italian life to the fullest, unaware that a novice female tourist is an easy target for unscrupulous Romans. High-spirited and reckless, her first impulsive move is to buy a Vespa, an act which instantly impacts the entire course of her summer.
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Within the first week, Catherine has chance encounters with three very different men. Each one touches her emotionally and in turn exposes her to all the beauty, the danger and the often ugly side of the city that she has grown to love.
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Everything comes to a head when her fiance from back home invades her three-month stay in Rome. Now no longer the person she was when she left the US, serious decisions regarding her future must be made, as well as the higher love she has discovered there.