She's Pallas Mulroney, a financial genius and top-notch poker player, in Lake Tahoe to win the money to buy a partnership in her chosen career. Her second agenda, to find out why her father was banned from gambling casinos in Tahoe twenty years ago. Danny Tarantino's new club is his whole life, and someone's out to destroy it. This threatens Pallas's plans as much as her attraction to Danny threatens her peace of mind. He has enough to handle without worrying about the redhead he can't get out of his thoughts—especially when she's determined to get involved.