It had to be jet lag, or some crazy dream; Samuel Garter decided when he discovered adorable Austin Tyler hanging upside down from a huge hole in the ceiling over his bed! But she was deliciously real, an unlikely construction worker with silky auburn hair he longed to unbraid and spread across his pillow He was the only man Austin had ever met whose eyes really twinkled--definitely husband material--but she figured he had oodles of sophisticated ladies in his life already... and told him so! Sam delighted in Austin's outspoken opinions, her playful humor, but what he really wanted was to haul her into his arms and reveal the fire and passion in her! Austin had always dreamed of being cherished by a man, but once she told Sam her terrible secret, she knew he wouldn't want to marry her. Could he make her believe that all the gifts she brought him were precious, and that he loved all the woman she was?