Dragu Cosmetics was in trouble, and marketing executive Anne Hopkins had a solution. She was eager to launch the new product in Rome, but dreaded spending time with Justin Bradley, the firm's urbane, womanizing--and altogether too attractive--attorney.

Clearly Justin wants more from Anne than a business relationship ... while she has no intention of sharing an ephemeral Roman holiday with him. But at sumptuous soirees and under soft, starlit skies, Anne yields slowly and surely to Justin's persuasive touch. Soon she is bound body and soul to a man whose murmured declarations arouse her deepest suspicions even as they satisfy her innermost longings...