She’s Dr. Isabel Favor, America’s diva of self-help.

He’s Ren Gage, Hollywood’s favorite villain.

Sometimes you merely know that God has a sense of humor.

Dr. Isabel Favour provides sacrificed everything to build her self-help empire. Then, in just a matter of weeks, it all comes crashing down. She manages to lose her money, her fiancé, and her reputation. Broke, heartsick, and soul-weary, she minds for Italy searching for a little respiration room.

Lorenzo Gage makes his living killing people .. around the silver screen, that is. He’s viciously handsome and sublimely talented. While on vacation in Italy he places Isabel sipping one glass of wine in a sidewalk café. An excellent guy wouldn’t think about seducing such a tidy-looking woman… but he’d by no means noticed the fun in playing the hero.

A farmhouse nestled in a Tuscan olive grove can’t provide Isabel using the refuge she requirements — not when the townspeople are scheming to operate a vehicle her away, and her intend to restore her popularity has come up empty. And especially not when the man who deceived her won’t leave her in tranquility.