Red Hot — Catherine Palmer

HE WAS ONE HOT HOMBRE...

And to her dismay, cool, aloof Rachel Hart needed roughshod migrant worker Ruben Salazar. For, mysteriously, only Ruben could coax his fellow chile pickers to reap the precious, fiery fruits that would ransom her family's endangered farm. But what reward would this macho man demand?

Marriage -- a marriage of convenience that promised both heaven and hell. For while Ruben's soulful blue eyes spoke of lofty intentions, his bronzed skin and rippling muscles inspired earthy, fevered yearnings...

There were dangerous contradictions in the man, and the fires his touch ignited threatened to bum away Rachel's common sense, blind her to the darkness surrounding her pleasure where she could lose her way forever.