Virgin Heart by Ember Flint

Carina Preston is a no-nonsense businesswoman that hides a lot of hurt behind a cold, unapproachable exterior and leads a quiet, unemotional and detached life. She thinks love is nothing but a foolish, dangerous illusion that can burn away your soul and she made a promise to herself not to be touched by it ever again.

All her life people have wanted to mold her into a person she is not sure she wants to be, a person she has to be every day if she wants to survive in the throat-cutting behind-the-scenes of the business world.
Sometimes all she wants is to play her piano and forget about the world, forget about the pain, but she can’t: everybody knows her as the Ice Queen of Boston and she has to play the part, wear the mask. The meaning of the word happiness seems to be forever lost to her, but one meeting with a mysterious sexy stranger at a glitzy soiree will change everything and color her icy blue world with fiery, red-hot passion.

At 34, Derek Anderson, handsome billionaire and consummated bachelor that never fails to appear in the most-eligible list, doesn’t see himself settling down anytime soon.
His life has always been on the fast lane and he never learned to stop; all he can think about is winning the next lawsuit, bring his opponents to their knees and make sure that with him at the helm his family’s firm, Anderson & Associates, remains on top.
His priorities drastically change as soon as his eyes land on a woman from across a glittering ballroom and he finds he cannot look away.

One second, one glance, one heartbeat and his entire world crumbles; suddenly love seems more real than it ever was.
The attraction between Carina and Derek burns fast and bright, sizzling in their bones until their breathless. They don’t understand, maybe they are even afraid, but they can’t walk away from each other: they don’t have enough strength to resist the heat buzzing in the air.
When the world stops spinning out of control, Carina decides that maybe she can take the plunge and try the ‘casual thing’: she doesn’t have to trust him, she can protect herself, she can keep her soul away from this, but Derek won’t stop until he gets everything from her and what he wants the most is her heart.