A Winter Woman — Dixie Browning

A RARE BIRD

Banker Cordelia Richardson spent her days with the most successful men in business -- but they left her cold. Then along came a half-naked handyman with holes in his sneakers, calluses on his palms and a chest that inspired awe, and she was practically drooling!

Her bird-watching friends had sent her for some needed R and R on Coranoke Island, but she hadn't been expecting to find this exotic strain of golden-crested handimanus hunkus. Cyrus Burrus's straightforward approach to life was oddly appealing. No games. No role-playing. He both frightened and fascinated her. And he promised to take the chill out of her heart and set her soul on fire.