Calliope Campbell spent years playing it safe and settling for the man she thought she needed. But when a pregnant woman interrupts her high-stakes destination wedding to expose her fiancé’s betrayal, Calliope realizes her "I will" was the biggest mistake of her life. Walking away from the altar in her Vera Wang gown, she finds herself in the arms of the one man her brother warned her about, Michael Marshall.
Michael is no longer the reckless boy from their high school squad. He’s the brilliant "Whiz of Wall Street," a billionaire rebuilding his family’s tarnished investment empire after his father’s scandalous fall. For a year, he’s lived with the regret of a missed chance with Calliope, and he isn't letting her go a second time.
The deal: Michael provides a private villa escape and corporate protection, and Calliope helps him secure a career-defining funding deal.
As they move from a steamy Mexican retreat to a cutthroat Miami boardroom, the "friends with benefits" arrangement they agreed upon becomes an all-consuming fire. But with a vengeful ex-fiancé threatening to sabotage Michael’s future and deep-seated family scars holding them both back, Calliope and Michael must decide if their connection is just a temporary sin, or a permanent happily-ever-after.
USA Today Bestselling Author, Victoria Pinder grew up in Irish Catholic Boston before moving to the Miami sun. She’s worked in engineering, after passing many tests proving how easy Math came to her. Then hating her life at the age of twenty four, she decided to go to law school. Four years later, after passing the bar and practicing very little, she realized that she hates the practice of law. She refused to one day turn 50 and realize she had nothing but her career and hours at a desk. After realizing she needed change, she became a high school teacher. Teaching is rewarding, but writing is a passion.
During all this time, she always wrote stories to entertain herself or calm down. Her parents are practical minded people demanding a job, and Victoria spent too many years living other people’s dreams, but when she sat down to see what skill she had that matched what she enjoyed doing, writing became so obvious. The middle school year book when someone wrote in it that one day she’d be a writer made sense when she turned thirty.
She’s always been determined. She is amazing, adventurous and assured on a regular basis. Her website is www.victoriapinder.com.