A Taste of Paradise . . . Eden's Sin

Nothing is as it seems in Aunt Miranda’s letters. That pristine town of Paradise Falls? A rough-and-tumble mining boomtown. Those elegant ladies and distinguished gentlemen who stroll the town’s tree-lined streets? Prostitutes and miners. The enticing bakery of Aunt Miranda’s letters? The most exclusive brothel within a hundred miles of Denver.
When Eden Macy learns her aunt has passed away, her whole life changes in a heartbeat. One minute she’s an aspiring teacher, eager to shape young minds. The next minute she’s on her way to claim her inheritance in the Colorado mountains: A Taste of Paradise, the bakery of her aunt’s letters. The bakery that is a brothel. And Eden Macy is its newest madam.
Reid Preston is too focused on his various business interests to have time for romantic liaisons. A mistress here or an occasional dalliance there, but never a serious romantic relationship. Not even with such an attractive young lady as Eden Macy, although he finds it increasingly difficult to resist her charms. But resist he does, until an old rival comes courting Miss Macy and threatens to woo her right out from under him. Reid decides it’s time to let Eden in on his intentions, intentions he didn’t know he had until Brett Malone became the competition.
Brett Malone, the suave, smooth, and dapper gentleman who has always been second-best to Reid Preston when it comes to business . . . and women. And he’s tired of it. He’s made it his mission to ferret out Reid’s past and now he’s ready to use that past against him. Eden Macy is but a pawn, the key to destroying Reid. And if the girl ends up as collateral damage, so be it.
Can Reid and Eden have a future together? Or is Reid’s past so dark that it will reach across the years and tear them apart?