Chapter One

I never imagined that working as a chaperone during the summer would result in anything more than tiresome supervision and countless complaints from school-age children. However, that was before him—Dominic.

Dominic was older and had dangerously alluring good looks. He was tasked with helping to oversee the trip as another chaperone. Something about the self-assured tilt of his jaw and the playful sparkle in his eyes made my heart race the instant I laid eyes on him. Between us, there was an unsaid tension, a charge that boiled beneath the surface.

To arrange our schedules, we were put in the same hotel accommodations on the first night. By...