Happy ever after was up for discussion

In all their married life, Keri and Shafe had never been together for six completely, uninterrupted weeks. And so the casual Caribbean setting belied the seriousness of their agenda--the future of their marriage.

Keri's blueprint for that included having her foreign-correspondent husband knuckle down to domesticity. She could no longer settle for sporadic visits from her husband for the rest of her life.

But even so, Keri knew that all Shafe had to do was touch her and she was putty in his hands. She only hoped that what she wanted, Shafe wanted, too.