She was transformed and triumphant! Laurie DiMaria returned to Ann Arbor sleek and slim -- a far cry from the plump young computer engineer who'd been sent abroad to forge an alliance with a Japanese company. And she thought shed accomplished something else as well. She'd put Craig Lawson, her handsome colleague, out of her thoughts forever. Yet from the moment Laurie reintroduced herself Craig gave her all his attention. Soon he wanted all of her time. Laurie knew she looked like a knockout, but the long years of being brilliant and over-weight had left her totally inexperienced in love. Why was the man shed worked with for so long--and longed for in vain--suddenly enthralled? What did he want: the dazzling new image or the passionately real woman within?