Chained — Ruthie Knox

Meet Ashley and Roman -- complete opposites who can't hide their attraction -- in this action-packed start of Ruthie Knox's serialized novel, Roman Holiday.

If Ashley Bowman were any more impetuous, she'd be dead. To save her childhood home in the Florida Keys from a heartless Miami developer with stony dark eyes and a killer body, she chains herself to a palm tree on the property -- hours before a hurricane blows in. Roman Diaz needs to learn a little compassion, and Ashley means to teach it to him . . . even if she has to drag him all over the Eastern Seaboard to do it.

But first, in Book 1, Roman will have to get her off the palm tree -- and such an endeavor will take some serious smooth talking.