Scandal and Sin — Lynn LaFleur

Rye Coleman falls in lust with Alaina May the first time she walks into the office of his construction firm. During the tour of the old house that she wants to refurbish, that lust takes over when Alaina falls on a broken step, right into his arms. Sex is hard and fast, and he imagines a lot more of it with Alaina -- until she tells him she's the sister of the woman who had humiliated him in front of the entire town three years ago. Rye accepts the remodeling job, but refuses to have anything personal to do with Alaina. Still a little broken from his relationship with her sister, he can't be sure Alaina won't humiliate him too. But Alaina is determined to convince Rye she's nothing like her sister. A picnic meant to thank him for his hard work turns into the first of many nights of lovemaking. A murder from seventy-five years ago, a ghost in the old house and a modern-day man determined to stop the remodeling threaten the blossoming love between Rye and Alaina. They have to admit their feelings and join together, or the outside forces will tear them apart.