Melissa Phillips had no time to brood on her bad luck in love. Day's Work, her mother's foundering temporary-employment agency, needed Iverson Gerrick's endorsement. Salvaging his account was going to take all her ingenuity. Impossible to please, he'd gone through every eligible employee. Melissa entered his office prepared to be a paragon of executive virtue and to do battle. But winning the battle didn't mean she'd won the war. Soon the skirmishes grew more heated, and before she knew it, Melissa was in her enemy's arms. Behind the arrogant facade did she detect the warmth of hidden tenderness? Did she merely intend to bring Iverson Gerrick to heel--or was it more?