The Morning After

A mortifying incident in her youth has shaken sense into Cara Byrne. No more bad boys. No more getting arrested. Instead, hard work and good behavior have earned her a job teaching at the local Boys Secondary School and a proposal from a worthy man. He doesn't exactly light her fire, but surely passion is overrated? When her childhood friend Ethan Quinn storms back into the small Irish village he left to pursue a career as a Hollywood action hero, she's stunned to discover she's as susceptible to his smoking-hot charm as every woman in the world. When a compromising photograph of them floods the media and life as she knows it melts down, could anyone blame her if she lets him whisk her away to his Malibu beach house? Ethan loves women, but bitter experience has made him wary. Reconnecting with the one woman he trusts completely, his old friend Cara throws him for a loop. She was always fun to be around, but now every time she smiles, all he can think about is kissing her. Cara's lost everything, and like it or not; he's responsible. There's no fighting the attraction that blazes between them-but when the month-long affair is over, will he be able to let her go?