Skye Anderson knew about love -- its pain and aching loss. As executive secretary at the Hayes Corporation, she had found safety in a cocoon of hard-working days and lonely nights.

James Steele threw her into turmoil. Elegant and impossibly virile, a legendary playboy he seeks to take her over as he has taken over the company. His fathomless dark eyes knowingly probe the very depths of her most secret heart, and his compelling maleness demands nothing less than total surrender...