NEITHER RHYME NOR REASON.Joelle Middleton was constitutionally incapable of making waves. She waspainfully shy. Her social life consisted of confiding to Ivan, her petlovebird, and reading Clayton Abbott's witty limericks and insightfuleditorials. Though she'd never met the man, she'd been hopelessly in lovewith him for years. Then disaster struck. Her slave-driving boss was wagingwar on Clayton's paper, and Joelle found herself the unwilling go-between.Meeting Clay was not in her plans. She was in love with his mind--his bodyshe could do without ...or so she thought, until she faced the mostdangerously attractive man she'd ever encountered.