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      “Fancy us meeting like this,” he said, his tone sarcastic. “I see it as one of those meant-to-be things.”

      Maci glared at him. She’d be damned if she was going to let him stroll down memory lane. Their past was off-limits.

      “Yes, fancy that.” She heard the defiant note in her tone as their eyes met.

      The effect was galvanizing.

      Maci sucked in her breath, and he cursed. Later she didn’t know who turned away first. At the time, she didn’t care. For her own self-preservation, she couldn’t have looked at him another second. “Look, I know this…us…is awkward, but—”

      “I thought about trying to find you.”

      Her heart skipped several beats and she tried to avert her gaze, but found that she couldn’t. “Holt—”

      “Holt, what?” His tone thickened. “Don’t say what’s been on my mind for two years.”

      “Stop it,” she muttered tersely, leaning closer as though fearing someone would hear their conversation. “I told myself I wouldn’t let you dredge up the past.”

      “Too late, honey. The past has slam-dunked us both.”

      In Hot Water

      Mary Lynn Baxter

      

www.mirabooks.co.uk

      To Warren and Wayne Elledge

      for all their invaluable help.

      Thanks, guys!

      Contents

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Chapter Thirty-Three

       Chapter Thirty-Four

       Chapter Thirty-Five

       Chapter Thirty-Six

       Chapter Thirty-Seven

       Chapter Thirty-Eight

       Chapter Thirty-Nine

       Chapter Forty

       Epilogue

      Prologue

      She knew she shouldn’t be dancing so intimately with a complete stranger.

      And she shouldn’t be enjoying it, especially when there was no music. But she was. His strong arms and callused hands were like nothing she’d ever experienced.

      Still, this was crazy behavior. She’d come on a mission to this Jamaican paradise, but it wasn’t to get involved with a man.

      “You feel so right in my arms,” he whispered against her ear.

      Each touch, each caress made her burn inside.

      He chuckled. “Cat got your tongue?

      “Yes.” Her breathing quickened. “I mean no.”

      He laughed even as he pulled her closer, their bodies swaying in the light breeze. In the distance, she could hear the ocean raising as much havoc as her heart.

      She had seen him the first day she and her three friends had arrived on the island. He had intrigued her immediately. He wasn’t classically handsome. His shoulders were broader and his arms more muscular than those of any man she knew. His abs were cut to perfection. Rugged was an apt description. She figured that was what had aroused such a wild streak in her.

      Character lines had been etched into his tanned face by the sun and wind,

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