Jessica hadn’t seen her roommate since she’d snuck out before dawn after that disastrous dinner with David Knight. When she asked, the manager told her Kimi had been fired for missing her last two shifts. Turned out, she’d given them a bogus address and phone number, and they hadn’t bothered to check, so now no one knew how to reach her. David was gone too. They’d both just disappeared.
She was sure she’d recognized David’s voice at the mill, but she couldn’t believe the mild-mannered surfer boy with his curly locks and sparkling eyes was really a ruthless businessman. Her instincts about men couldn’t be so wrong, could they?
Her whole life, her passions had meant swimming upstream through a torrent of men—from horsemanship and rodeos when she was a kid, to studying philosophy in the big
