Champagne Flight

"Do you believe in love at first flight?"

The note came attached to a bottle of Dom Perignon. Loy McDaniel, professional balloonist, pilot, and owner of Cloud Soaring, Inc., wasn't flattered; she was livid. A veteran of two short-lived marriages, she had no interest in love of any kind. Certainly she had no interest in Derett Graham, first her unwanted charter passenger, now her all-too-avid pupil. Even as he showered her with attention, Loy denied her feelings, insisting his tantalizing touch signaled only trouble... until his kisses kindled the banked fires that sent her soaring, like a balloon caught in wild winds, swept deliriously out of control....