Overview
Ria Lavender hadn't planned on spending a passionate Christmas night in front of a roaring fire with Taylor Mackensie. But somehow the scents of pine tree, wood smoke, and male flesh produced a kind of spontaneous combustion inside her, and morning found the lovely architect lying on her silver fox coat beside the mayor-elect, a man she hardly knew. Ten weeks later she discovered she was pregnant with Taylor's child--and insisted they had to marry. A marriage "in name only, " she promised him, to protect the innocent baby, with an annulment right after the birth. Taylor agreed to a wedding, but shocked Ria with his demand that they live together as husband and wife--in every way. She couldn't deny she wanted him, the lady-killer with the devil's grin, but there was danger in falling for a man she couldn't keep--a man whose ambitions knew no bounds...