“Once, long ago, he’d have given her anything. But this time lovely Lily Wharton wouldn’t get her way.” A bitter family feud carries into the next generation when design entrepreneur Lily Wharton tries to buy her ancestral home back from bad-boy corporate raider Declan Gates.

Lily and Declan shared a close secret friendship as kids, but when a stirring kiss opened a new world of dangerous possibilities, she shut him out of her life. Now their hometown of Blackrock, Maine is on the brink of extinction. Lily knows she can bring employment back to Blackrock if only she can convince Declan to sell his family’s property to her. But he doesn’t share her vision for the town that treated him like an outcast, or wish to humor the woman who crushed his heart.

When he learns Lily took her company public to raise money to buy the property, he decides he’ll have the woman, her company, and the house. He has no idea he’s about to lose his heart.