High Stakes
by Barbara Dunlop

Candice Hammond's renovation plans for the Lighthouse Restaurant are perfect — until the maddening and madly attractive number cruncher Derek Reeves steps in. They're arguing about everything right down to the last fork and it's taking all her negotiating skills to stop her interior design project from going up in smoke!

Derek Reeves, international businessman and heir apparent to the family corporation, knows what to do to succeed — always stay focused, never get distracted. But the game plan goes awry once he and Candice find themselves locked up together at the job site. That's when they both have to put all their cards and their clothes on the table....

Barbara Dunlop's Bio

USA Today bestselling author Barbara Dunlop sold her first book to Harlequin in 2000. Since then, she has written more than 30 novels for Harlequin and has won a number of writing awards. She is a former member of the RWA Board of Directors and a two-time RITA award finalist.

Married to her high school sweetheart, they live on a hobby ranch in Canada's north amidst ruggedly beautiful mountains, where bears wander by their log house, and moose and deer graze in the fields.