Take Me Tender

The most coveted stretch of sand in Malibu, California, is known as Billionaire’s Beach—a hat tip to the wealthy residents who enjoy its flower-scented air and dramatic ocean views. The surfside locale is heating up with happy-ever-afters too, as three determined heroines discover the deliciously wicked heroes their hearts desire.

Bachelor-about-town Jay Buchanan has sworn to go a year without women, but a guy’s gotta eat so he puts out feelers for a private chef. If the best applicant’s female, so what? More needs to come out of his Malibu kitchen than peanut butter and beer, and he’s in no mood for romance anyway.

Long ago Nikki Carmichael learned to put up her guard when it comes to men, and her new client, Jay Buchanan, is the manliest man she’s ever met. She figures ignoring his magnetism will turn him away…but instead it backfires, and Jay is only further intrigued by the woman who refuses to fall at his feet.

They flirt, they fight, they ultimately share a bed and then their deepest secrets…but can these two trust that what seems like a summer fling is truly the love of a lifetime?