Fresh from divorce, has just moved out of the only home she's known for the past twenty years, relocated to the beach, and reentered the work force. With her daughter home from college for the summer and a new job she adores, Maryn certainly doesn't have time for a gorgeous man—as arrogant as he is sexy and over ten years her junior—to swoop into her life and stir up trouble. But that's just what happens when her daughter secretly places an ad to rent out the casita behind their beach house and Manhattan's most notorious playboy shows up at the door. After recently inheriting the fastest growing investment firm in New York, has a publicity problem. The latest notch in his bedpost was the daughter of a senator and barely eighteen, and now his Board of Directors wants to vote him out. So when his PR team sends him across the country so they can do damage control, Ridge ends up renting a beachside casita from a woman whose no nonsense attitude is just what he needs—and apparently exactly what he wants. Their chemistry is undeniable, but when sparks fly, more than just the bed sheets could go up in flames.