Housewife-turned-superstar-novelist, Suzanne Rand, hardly resembles the frumpy, brokenhearted woman she used to be when she returns to North Carolina to sell her family home. Now wiser and independent, she arrives with no plans to stay. Rick Gordon hopes to change her mind. The former bad-boy-turned-successful-businessman knows they have an unfinished chapter and he plots to use seduction to lead her right into his arms. But although Suzanne can't resist the passion that ignites between them will their rekindled romance survive the secrets of the past or will leaving be the best for both of them? The first book in the Ladies of the Pen series.