No good deed goes unpunished. After finding and reporting irregularities in her company's new software, programming analyst Caitlyn O'Malley is fired from her job. On the flight home to Texas, she searches the dark clouds outside her window for a silver lining. Instead, she becomes trapped inside a lavatory. When the stuck door finally bursts open, Caitlyn falls, relieved but embarrassed, into the arms of the handsome, disarming captain.Airline pilot Tim Deluca has a blonde or brunette waiting for him in nearly every city in America. Redheads are not on his radar. When he breaks down a jammed restroom door to rescue a flaming-haired passenger, she barely registers on his attraction meter. But when the new poker player at his regular game turns out to be the lady in the lavatory, he suddenly finds himself all in.Denying her attraction to the inveterate womanizer, Caitlyn refuses to go out with him. But, intrigued by his terse, cryptic snark, she can't resist digging beneath Tim's emotional armor, discovering a depth he's never shared with anyone. The man who's always rejected intimacy finds himself wanting, for the first time in his life, a real relationship. But to win Caitlyn's love, Tim will have to confront and combat the emotional scars of his past.