Writing romance novels has fulïlled Deena Lakeeld's deepest fantasies. But the rising author and art-gallery heiress still hasn't found the hero in her own life. Until she travels to historic Hilton Head Island, where hunky Vegas real estate tycoon Maxwell Donovan seduces her with candlelight dinners and midnight swims.

Deena has finally found love—only to have her dream man vanish once their idyll ends.

Max can't believe he let Deena get away…can't believe she's actually here in Vegas. All he wants is to hold her again, to let his kisses show how much he adores her. Will the woman of his dreams ï ¬ ‚ ee once she knows his secret? Or is theirs a love story for the books?