Taryn Holt closes deals and catches flights, and doesn't stick around long enough to get attached. So when a storm reroutes her through Atlanta, she plans to handle it the way she handles everything?efficiently, quietly, and alone.

Lance Mercer has other plans. Namely, spending an entire flight informing her that her job is destroying people's lives one restructure at a time. Naturally, they end up rerouted to the same city, and, thanks to a booking mix-up neither of them saw coming, the same bed.

He runs a nonprofit and believes in second chances. She runs the numbers and believes in getting out clean. Both of them believe, very firmly, that they cannot stand each other.

They are both wrong.

Why does a stranger feel like someone they've known forever? And why doesn't either of them want the layover to end?