Left hand, ring finger… Best friend Bridgett Owens'sgigantic diamond winked at the eldest Deveraux son,Chase, like a coy madam at an old-time bordello. Thefun-loving playboy of Charleston, South Carolina,wasn't supposed to go gaga over the grown-up daughterof the family housekeeper. Except welling up in thebachelor's brain were protective, intimate feelings thathe just couldn't-didn't want to-discount. But can aman who's definitely not the marrying kind turn into a(gasp) committed groom-to-be…especially when nothingbut bad luck has burnished his romantic record?