Terence Gavilan could turn a sleepy turn-of-the-century village into a booming seaside resort overnight. But the real passion of his life was searching for Emma Hunt, the mysterious and elusive creator of the tantalizing romances he admired. When he found her, he planned to prove that real life could be so much more exciting than fiction. To the proper folk of Braedon's Beach, Philipa Braedon was the prim daughter of their community's founding father. Yet secretly, she enjoyed swimming naked in the ocean and writing steamy novels. Philipa had no intention of revealing her double life to anyone, especially not to a man as arrogant and overbearing as Terence Gavilan. But she didn't count on being touched by moonlight and ending up happier than any of her heroines.