He was Hollywood's leading up-and-coming producer. She was a first-time novelist startled by her sudden fame. But Marina was determined that nobody--not even Stephen Kramer himself--was going to make her novel into some brainless, trashy teenage movie.

So Marina demanded that Stephen let her write the screenplay. At first he was reluctant, but then Marina's charms began working on his tough, businessman's exterior. Soon they were working together. What had begun as a tension-fraught business deal quickly turned into a romance that would last forever and a day.