Second Chance with the CEO

As high school seniors 15 years ago, Cole Serenghetti and Marisa Danieli could not be more different. He was the top hockey player, good-looking, popular, and headed for sports stardom. Marisa was the work-study student, nerdy and shy. So when they were thrown together for a class project, no one was more surprised than they to end up on the theater department's couch. Then Cole's senior prank gets busted—causing him to lose the hockey championship and almost wrecking his scholarship—and Marisa is the one who turned him in to the principal! She was confused by his lack of attention after their night together, and blackmailed into snitching on him. While 15 years have somewhat dimmed Cole's rage, seeing Marisa again brings back the anger. But Marisa still can't deny the pull of Cole Serenghetti. As a teacher now at their high school, Marisa needs Cole for her charity fundraiser, but Cole is not content to leave it at that. He circles around her—baffled by his perceived past betrayal and his new feelings of lust and possessiveness. Is the one that got away, the very one that was meant to stay? Marissa and Cole's story is, thankfully, just the beginning for fans of DePalo (Having the Tycoon's Baby).