By Design

Beautiful Lauren Hughes has worked hard to earn her reputation as the best in the renovation of New York's finest brownstones. Now, with her thirtieth birthday just around the corner, she has only six months to complete her quest to travel around the world. Ignoring her best friend's insistence that she is running from demons, Lauren is bent on making travel plans... until she gets the opportunity of a lifetime.

Ex-football pro Nicholas Randolph isn't one to turn down a challenge or a friend. Yet having been asked to secretly hire Lauren to renovate his newly acquired brownstone, Nick signs on to a mission that will put him into close proximity to the one woman who has managed to get under his think skin and put designs on his heart.