Tempting Fate — Carla Neggers

Dani Pembroke had lost her mother long ago--but the mysterious circumstances of her disappearance still kept the people of Saratoga whispering. Now, successful and fiercely independent, Dani wanted to forget the past and concentrate on running her business. But then Zeke Cutler arrived....

He was handsome, coolly confident--and determined to uncover the real story behind Lilli Chandler Pembroke's vanishing. Dani could never have dreamed of the secrets he would uncover, the truths he would reveal.

And she would never have dared to dream of the long-suppressed passion he would unleash in her heart....