SHE NEEDED SOME TIME ALONE. Marisa Perett was on her way home when Hurricane Bertha swept through the Florida Keys, leaving destruction in her wake. When Marisa rescued newsman Michael Novak from the sea, his effect on her was just as devastating. But Marisa couldn't afford to fall in love. She had to return to San Felipe, where she'd once been First Lady. The people needed her, and she'd reluctantly agreed to reunite, in name only, with the man who had been her husband in order to help sway the presidential elections. Suddenly, she found herself torn between a love without a future... or a future without love.