*When they were united they were feeling the velvet touch. *Tawny, elegant Lacey Seldon was determined to cut loose from her librarianpast adn find liberation in the Northwest. An island paradise in Puget Soundseemed the perfect place to begin ... until she met Holt Randolph. Holt wasunlike any man she'd ever met. His touch made her hunger for a release she'dnever known. But he said he didn't want half a heart and challenged her togamble it all in a blazing affair that would bring her to her senses--andinto his arms.