Meredith Ashe thought her heart was broken when Cy Harden's family ran herout of town as a scared teenager, penniless and pregnant. Now, stronger andwiser, she's back, but this time as the poised, powerful head of a multinational corporation - and she's planning a hostile takeover of HardenProperties. Cy doesn't know the secrets Meredith is hiding, and she has nointention of telling him. She plans to let him think she's the same shy girlhe abandoned years ago, but she hasn't counted on the way her body stillthrills to his touch. And when Meredith begins to fall for Cy all overagain, even her carefully made plans can't protect her.