They not only came from different parts of the country. Their views belonged to different centuries!

"Maybe that's why I've never found you real;" Jake said slowly. "Never met a lovely looking female yet who didn't do something to me! And then you came along--figure like a goddess and hair like fire -- but you leave me stone cold."

Laura's hand shot out with a stinging blow to his cheek. Then, appalled, she wondered how she could have let him rile her into behaving like a shrew!