This Book is for Mature Audiences 17+******** Scarlet Leigh Johnson hasn't had the easiest life, it's been full of heartbreak and abandonment issues. So when she's accepted to her dream school in her hometown of Savannah Georgia she's ecstatic. Only one thing steps in her way. Community Service. She lost her temper just a little bit and now has to pay her dues. Her plan now, just get through this and never look back. Go to SCAD and make her dreams come true. That is until the biggest, cockiest, smartass she's ever met crosses her path. She doesn't want to deal with another pre-Madonna rich boy. But behind all of his smartass quips she's sees the pain he's hiding in his eyes. Ryder Grayton Abbott is a Cotton heir and all about having a good time. Until one nights good time lands him community service. His plan is to muscle through it and get it over with. Just a few weeks building a house and he could go back to working on his farm and having a playboy lifestyle. Women he loves women, he just doesn't trust them. They all want something from him. That is until he meets Scarlet. She wants nothing from him except maybe to kick his ass if he talks to her. He can see the fear that lies deep in her eyes. He wants her he can't explain it, maybe it's just a self-challenge, since he's pretty sure she hates him. He knows she doesn't trust him and he's pretty sure he doesn't blame her. Meet two people that have a bundle of insecurities and need each other more than they realize. This is the first book in the spin-off series from the Amazon Bestselling Temptation Series.