From the moment the striking, frosty-eyed temptress strides into his regular dive bar haunt, local ladies' man Darren is instantly enraptured by her bewitching mystique. In their close-knit small town where he's on a first-name basis with every soul, this gorgeous, elusive stranger is an irresistible siren-call he's powerless to ignore-her disinterested glares and aloof disdain only fanning the ravenous flames of desire. While easy charisma earns Darren his reputation as a stud, this infuriatingly tantalizing beauty rebuffs his searing advances with icy nonchalance...until their blowtorch chemistry unleashes into a sizzling one-night conflagration. But come morning, his mystery lover has fled back behind her towering walls once more. Used to seducing any woman who captures his fancy, Darren refuses to let this defiant Ice Queen freeze his inner blaze. With unrelenting, scorching fervor, he'll deploy every irresistible tactic to demolish her defenses-can this smoldering Casanova convince the guarded temptress to let him melt her heart?