Hardworking detective Dekker Smith had always been beautician Joleen Tillys best buddy. But when Joleen fell for a rich boys honeyed lies--producing precious but fatherless little Sam--and Sams powerful grandparents demanded custody, Dekker proposed an astonishing solution a most convenient marriage!For Dekker had come into family money and was now wealthy enough to fend off any claims on Joleens toddler. But could Joleen fend off her sudden, searing desire for her in-name-only husband? Would that unexpected heat burn the bonds between best friends? Or forge a family that was meant to be?,