Dance of the Crystal — Cris Anson

Bar owner Soren reluctantly offers himself at a "Take a Bachelor to Dinner" auction for charity. When the socialite who "won" him seems to be making a quick getaway under the table instead of claiming him, a humiliated and angry Soren hoists her over his shoulder and storms from the ballroom but then doesn't know what to do with her. His man-woman skills are almost nonexistent, because he learned as a child that love hurts and no woman can be trusted with his heart.

One look at the man on stage and thirty-year-old Crystal realizes her talisman is almost burning her skin, telling her that he's The One. But it doesn't tell her how to convince this prickly, quiet, intriguing, sexy ex-Marine that she wants to give him everything: heart, soul...virginity.

Only when a psychotic stalker takes violent exception to their burgeoning relationship does Soren realize how much Crystal means to him. But will he be too late to save her?