Handsome tycoon James Putnam is acting CEO of his familyโs logging company, Putnam Industries. He needs to land a big deal to prove to the board heโs capable of leading the company. If not, his fatherโs right-hand-man is more than willing to fill the role. James hurries to Indigo Island alone, certain he has what it takes to win the bid, earn the CEO title and save the island from uncontrolled logging.
Aubrey Templeton is a gorgeous magazine reporter facing a mountain of debt after her parentsโ tragic deaths. The only asset she has to leverage is 2,500 acres of old growth forest on Indigo Island. She hires Dirk Cooley, a forester, to create a forest management plan for her familyโs land and to solicit multiple logger bids to lease the land. Aubrey insists James Putnamโs company is included since she still hasnโt forgotten the one night of incredible sex they shared over a year ago, and sheโs sure heโll be eager for a repeat performance.
What Aubrey doesnโt know is that James is a changed man, who is determined to prove he didnโt get his job as a birth right. He is determined to never again mix business with pleasure, although keeping Aubrey at arms length during their negotiations tests Jamesโ discipline and will power, especially as he finds himself in the role of tour guide for the sexy landowner and later as her protector when an unscrupulous forester targets them both in a revenge plot hatched to destroy the Putnam family.
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