title: Desperate Measures
author: Cajio, Linda
description: Ellen Kitteridge was exquisite, an elegant beauty whose kissable mouth attracted Joe Carlini, but whose invisible sign read "Don't Touch." Devastated by a loveless marriage to a fortune hunter, she was unnerved by Joe's headlong pursuit, but the wildly virile executive drew her to him as inevitably as iron to a magnet. Lost in the fire storm of Joe's embrace, Ellen couldn't refuse his sizzling lips, nor his request to spy on an employee whose betrayal could destroy Joe's company. What began as a favor between friends soon erupted into sensual fireworks that left Ellen breathless...but unwilling to believe in new dreams. She denied him, ran from him, hid from her deepest desires, but Joe vowed she would never escape...and she knew it was true. She'd been captured by fate the moment she'd looked into his eyes and seen her future. But could Joe keep her shattered past from shadowing all the years to come?