He was cause for excitement... All along Pepper MacNeil's mail delivery route, people were buzzing about "him" — the new man in the neighborhood. But no wagging tongue prepared her for the gorgeous male—lean, tanned, gleaming with sweat—shingling his roof. John Smith had a personality to match his appealing looks, and a slow smile that set Pepper's pulses simmering. Though wary of men, she couldn't resist when his warm friendliness deepened with sensuous intent for he aroused so much in her.