A dare. A sensual escape. A morning that started the way most stories end with sheets tangled, sun on skin and no deadlines in sight. In Part One of this exclusive story set at Desire Riviera Maya Pearl, Jess and James takes readers inside their moment. Welcome to a new kind of rendezvous.

I snap my fruit bowl shut and tuck it back in the fridge next to my Le Creuset flask of pasta he made with all the love. I see all his personal touches. A little like having my own personal concierge, but for my heart. I smile and then follow Noemie out the office doors.

Mrs Nadler had long hung up. But I carried on reading through the cover changes. The earlier telephone conversation drawing a small...