An Innocent in Paradise by Kate Carlisle

Author:Kate Carlisle
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

She had been a virgin.

Logan was still shaking his head in disbelief two days later as he sat at his office desk. He’d just received the revised set of blueprint renderings of the proposed sports center and he pulled them from the large mailing tube. Unrolling the thick stack of drawings across his conference table, he used his stapler and a hardbound dictionary to secure the ends and prevent the stack from curling up.

Grace was the last woman on earth he would’ve guessed would be a virgin. If he’d known, he sure as hell wouldn’t have taken her to bed the other night.

But how could he have guessed? The woman had come across as though she’d written the book on sex. She studied a species’ sexual habits, for God’s sake. She gave lectures to newlyweds on how to find their G-spot—or whatever they were calling it these days. Who would’ve guessed that Ms. Sexual Expert had been faking it this whole time?

“Hell.” He wiped a hand across his jaw. He should’ve been pissed off with her deception, but instead he caught himself laughing out loud as he recalled her demands in bed the other night. He’d tried to be a nice guy when he discovered she’d never done the deed before. He’d been willing to stop altogether, or at least slow down. But not Grace. She was full steam ahead. Thank God.

Logan shook away the image of Grace naked in his bed and tried hard to focus on the sports center blueprints.

He and Aidan had learned long ago that projects like the sports center would cause problems at every step. And whenever a new problem reared its ugly head, a whole new set of drawings had to be rendered. So not only had the design of the center itself changed three times now, but they’d been forced twice to completely move the site of the project. The new site was based on the latest geological survey and the environmental impact reports they’d received last month.

Logan turned to the next blueprint to study the architect’s three-dimensional rendering.

Most of the problems with building a sports center on the tiny island of Alleria had to do with the geological makeup of the island itself. The beaches, the natural bay and the rocky coves were the features that brought most of the tourists here. But also, the island had been formed by an ancient volcano, now dormant, and the land around the volcano had been ravaged by ancient lava flows. Now, over one square mile of north island coastline was barren except for the scrub that managed to grow there. In contrast, much of the southern part of the island was covered in lush rain forest.

The original investors had suggested that the brothers put the sports center adjacent to the hotel and within walking distance of the edge of the rain forest. The theory was that sports enthusiasts would be able to enjoy not only the beauty of the rain forest, but also the hiking and zip-line features offered.

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