Bar owner Marco Vargas isn't exactly the chivalrous type, but when a runaway bride hijacks his motorcycle on the Vegas strip, he can't seem to tell her to leave.Despite her being nowhere near his type, he's surprised that he's attracted to her. When it becomes clear she needs some time to lie low, he reluctantly offers her a job.Lingerie Heiress Brandy Summers isn't just hiding from her increasingly aggressive groom, but also the media who is trying to find her. Fortunately, no one at Dante's-the bar she's taken a job at-seems to realize who she is. Still, when a co-worker offers to make her over, she figures it's the smart thing to do.Soon the simmering attraction she shares with Marco is at a full boil, and she quickly discovers how fun being a little bad can be.When Marco learns just who she really is, everything changes. And he fears the day she might learn about the dark secret he's been hiding.What neither of them could anticipate were the dangerous steps her jilted groom-who owes money to some terrifying people-would take to get her back. Shelli is a New York Times Bestselling Author who read her first romance novel when she snatched it off her mother's bookshelf at the age of eleven. One taste and she was forever hooked. It wasn't until many years later that she decided to pursue writing stories of her own. By then she acknowledged the voices in her head didn't make her crazy, they made her a writer.Shelli currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her daughter where she writes various genres of romance. She's a compulsive volunteer, and has been known to spontaneously burst into song.
