Betina Krahn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soft Touch and The Perfect Mistress, casts her beguiling spell once more with this warm and witty love story....<P>AN IMMOVABLE UPTOWN LADY...<P>Rich suffragette Beatrice Von Furstenberg was tough enough to trade stocks on Wall Street and smart enough to resist the temptation of passion. Adamant about women being independent -- and without a romantic bone in her lovely body -- she had sternly refused to give her moonstruck sixteen-year-old ward permission to wed an eighteen-year-old ward permission to wed an eighteen-year-old suitor. Now the desperate teens have dreamed up a mock robbery and a daring rescue to change Beatrice's mind.<P>AN IRRESISTIBLE DOWNTOWN MAN...<P>Attorney Connor Barrow, a rogue of an Irishman with a silver tongue, remembers all too well the burning desires of youth. So he agrees to help in a crazy plan that will land him in a world of trouble. Suddenly he is responsible for the most influential lady in the city being locked up in a brothel, furious and threatening his ruin. Neither of them expects that first breathless kiss -- a deal that would make the devil himself blush -- and, most of all, the ways love can change a man's mind and open a woman's heart....