Seduction on the Yacht Deck

Midnight settled over the French Riviera like a heavy blanket of black silk and diamonds. Anchored three miles off the rocky cliffs of Saint-Tropez in the sheltered waters of the Baie des Canoubiers lay Matteo’s superyacht, *The Chimera*—a sleek, one-hundred-and-sixty-foot custom vessel constructed of carbon-fiber and titanium, powered by twin gas turbine engines capable of forty-five knots. On the teak aft deck, Geneva Scott stood by the mahogany handrail, watching…