Horticulturalist Tori Larson has big plans that need cash. She wants to establish a research garden and crossbreed plants to reverse the environmental mess left behind by big business. But when the banks turn her down, the only option left is to approach the very sector she loathes...big business. If Tori had known her search would bring her face to face with Eric Coscarella, owner of Continental Investments, she would have run the other direction. And for good reason. Not only are their business philosophies different, their attraction to each other scares Tori witless. Seven years earlier in university, she'd had a monumental crush on Eric and had made a fool of herself trying to catch the eye of the dark-haired god now sitting across from her. After graduation, he'd left her without a backwards glance. Tori has no intention of repeating that painful mistake...broken hearts take too long to mend.