Carina Conte has had a crush on her brother Michael's best friend, Max Gray, since she was a teenager back home in Italy. Now she's earned her MBA and come to work at Michael's bakery empire. Max knows Carina is strictly off-limits, for the sake of his job and his friendship with Michael. But hot-blooded lust wins out at a conference when the two share a scorching one-night stand-- and are busted by her mother! Forced by old-world Italian tradition into a marriage he's not ready for, Max is miserable and Carina is furious. Her new husband is about to realize that hell hath no fury like a woman transformed ...