Secrets, scandal and seduction...

Chef Giselle Cesare has fought hard to step out of the shadow of her overprotective clan. She has a week of freedom when all of her brothers are out of town, and a sexy stranger arrives in her kitchen right on cue. Too bad he's a journalist and fixated on the club's shady past-- a past she won't discuss.

Driven journalist Hugh Duncan doesn't usually mix business with pleasure, but Giselle is worth breaking a few rules. Besides, he never wanted to write an expose on the steamy singles resort, priding himself on more substantive pieces. But soon, Hugh learns of Giselle's close connections with one of the club's former owners--a key player in an old scandal. He's got all the dirt for the story he needs, but at what price?

*An earlier draft of this story was published by Harlequin