Hardy Cates is self-made, charming - and determined to carry out his private revenge against the Travis family. So when he crashes a Travis family wedding, the last thing he expects is to find himself kissing his adversary Haven Travis in a dark corner. Hardy has done many things in his life he s not proud of, but now he s trying to rid himself of his roughneck past, which doesn t mean falling in love with a rival - no matter how beautiful she is.
Haven, likewise, vows to stay far away from Hardy. Having had her heart quite recently broken - and her body battered and bruised by the man she thought she had loved - she s through with men. That is, until she discovers that the temptation of a tender-hearted, blue-eyed devil is hard to resist. And then, when a menace from Haven s past appears, Hardy may be the only one to save her...
Read MoreKleypas s second poignant, passionate, and perfectly written contemporary romance is richly emotional and sinfully sexy - BOOKLIST'[Lisa Kleypas] delivers a page-turning, formula-breaking romance that takes on social issues and escalates passion to new heights' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY