Book excerpt: The old hotel Mackenzi works at will be closing. As the manager, she wants to protect her fellow coworkers, who are like family, and she worries about whether or not she can convince the new owner to preserve the hotel. While getting his suite ready, she falls asleep, exhausted. So Dante arrives to find a charming woman in his bed. Is this the present he was told about? Are the hotel’s employees trying to butter up to him by hiring a high-class prostitute? They spend a sweet night together, but the next morning, Dante realizes that she’s the hotel manager. He agrees to rethink closing the hotel…if she becomes his mistress!