Laughter's Way

First she'd attacked him in the stalled elevator, then let him beguile her into dinner, and finally, melted in his arms. Now she wanted him out of her life -- out of her hotel forever! Alexis Cartwright came to Galveston with one purpose -- to buy the Ebbtide Hotel. From the first she'd sensed Harper Evans was neither friend nor lover, but foe -- the competition. She wanted to restore the old hotel, add it to her small, very independent empire of successful renovations. He wanted to raze it and build a modem monstrosity. They had nothing in common. He'd laughed at her, called her a fool...then they'd laughed and loved together. Yet still Alexis swore to have her hotel -- and the last laugh -- when the final bids were in.