Wrapped in Rainbows — Susanna Collins

After years of rootlessness, Alexis has finally found a home. In San Tomas, where she works as a city councilwoman, she enjoys a sense of settled belonging.

Then destiny brings her Griffon Cochran. Their intellectual rapport sparks a physical yearning which Alexis indulges with reckless abandon. But Griff opposes her on a political issue close to her heart and suddenly the man who disturbed only her senses threatens her career, her reputation, and her very home as well! How can she even think of loving him? Yet in his urgent embrace she recognizes his daring challenge -- to put him first, to take a chance on love...