Book excerpt: Wealthy Nikolai Ivanov was highly dubious about the provocative young woman his aunt had taken into her luxurious Notting Hill home. Wayward one second then tantalizingly seductive the next, Lisa Romaine both intrigued and infuriated him. She was a woman with secrets, and Nikolai was going to discover each and every one of them. All he needed was to overcome her resistance to him. But the danger was that he could so easily end up falling for her instead....