Beguiled by a Stranger

With that diabolical glint in his eye and his swashbuckling corporate style, in another age Rhys Warner would have plundered booty and hearts with equal panache. By any measure, the founder of Lodestar Inc., was impossible to resist.

Megan Colby, head of Florida's Coastal Industrial Development Foundation, set out to persuade him to invest in the area. But Rhys intended to do some persuading of his own. He was determined to have Megan, promising nothing more than a voyage on the high seas of passion. But passion was only a prelude to the storm to come: Her challenge was to win the trust and love of a man who had sworn that he'd never give up an adventurer's freedom.