The last thing Darien West needs is an overconfident Wall Street raider like Vincent Leighton whose reputation catapulted him to the height of New York society. Women were for mutual amusement, never serious contemplation. Years of fending off female intentions have come back to haunt him, for this buxom green-eyed lady is his choice and apparently she wants nothing to do with him. Using a personal project to insinuate himself into her life has consequences neither could have imagined, especially since he is the new owner of the one thing in this world Darien covets.