Wilde Man

Founded around the turn of the last century, DeWildes has spent generations making wedding dreams come true for brides across the globe. Its Sydney branch is the setting here, and at its center is Maxine Sterling, a sharp-tongued lawyer who handles the store's legal affairs and has no patience for trouble.

When a rugged outsider turns up uninvited at an elegant DeWildes wedding, Maxine takes notice. His merchandise, a line of cheap T-shirts and tasteless keepsakes, threatens the polished image and clean record the Sydney store has worked to protect. Cutter DeWilde, with his striking looks, confident manner and unusual surname, is not the kind of man Maxine expects to deal with.

Maxine means to see him gone, yet his easygoing, unapologetic way of life is exactly what she left behind long ago. Caught between her professional duty and her own history, she finds resisting him harder than she had planned.