The story
Daniel Aragon knows trouble when he sees it, and the flirtatious beauty on the San Francisco pier is exactly that. Harmony Russell is the niece of a land commissioner and strictly off-limits, because the Aragon family's land grant review must go off without a hitch.
Harmony has no intention of letting business come between her and the stranger who stole her heart with one dark glance. She sets out to seduce the hot-blooded Californio and gets caught in her own trap. Surrounded by scandal and forced to marry, the two must decide whether to drop their pride and join forces or surrender to a loveless, and landless, future.
About this book
Tempt Me With Kisses appeared in 1991 as the third book in the Hearts of California series, following Hearts of Gold and No Sweeter Ecstasy. The story turns on the land-grant reviews that threatened the old Californio families after American annexation, with Daniel Aragon carrying the family's case. The author's site later offered the title in ebook editions alongside the rest of the series.
Questions people ask
- Where does Tempt Me With Kisses fall in the series?
- It is the third Hearts of California book, after Hearts of Gold (book one) and No Sweeter Ecstasy (book two).
- What is a Californio?
- The term used in the books for the Spanish-Mexican families who held land in California before it became part of the United States. The Aragons are one such family.