Before the Wind — Leslie Davis Guccione

"What you need," her brother said, "is a wild, honest-to-goodness fling." Maybe he was right. For the past two years, Bay Chandler had concentrated solely on sailing charter boats in the Virgin Islands. It kept her busy -- and too exhausted to think about her failed marriage. Now Bay had come home to Newport to start over. And like a ship caught in rough seas, she found her port in a storm in the six feet of blond gorgeousness that was Paul Bendette. The trouble was, once she had flung herself in his direction, the last thing she wanted was to leave the safe harbor of his arms.