John Appleton had never once regretted stepping off the fast track. His responsibilities as a single father came first, and that was something he'd just have to make clear to his most difficult client, a beautiful lady lawyer who was driving him to distraction-in more ways than one ....

There was no room in Sydney Scott Wells's life for a man-- especially not for this man, who made it clear he wanted no part of her world. And yet it was this sensitive, passionate and very sexy man who had awakened the woman in her--for the first time ....