Restoring Love — Suzanne Sherrill

One look in those penetrating gray eyes and Lauren was convinced she could drown in them. One moment spent in Leland Cross's company convinced her that he would never lift a hand to save her.

She had done the unforgivable--made a fool of the man who made it patently clear he was nobody's fool. Wealthy, powerful, Leland Cross was Charleston's biggest and most volatile developer. Lauren was merely a city employee in the planning bureau... a young widow with a small child, pitted against a giant of a man who had let her know in no uncertain terms that he wanted her, he wanted to get even, and that he had the ruthless determination to get exactly what he wanted....