"I don't know why I bought the place!"

Lawyer Steven Reid now owned a neglected turn-of-the-century house in San Francisco. And he'd even hired an interior designer.

But from the moment Steven met Kate Melrose, their ideas about the house clashed. He wanted a little white paint slapped up on the walls. She believed the house deserved more—that it deserved to be a home again.

As Kate predicted, Steven began to like the thought of living in "the kind of place that has a stack of firewood by the hearth." And a woman at its heart. A woman like Kate Melrose....