He'd thrown his body over hers as soon as gunfire erupted in the bank, but Carrie Forties was shocked to feel passion mixed with fear when Brian York pulled her beneath him! The rugged entrepreneur tempted her as no man ever had, made her crave what she thought she'd never know, but could she trust the sweet vows of intimacy when heartbreak still lingered in the shadows of her soul?

Weaving the catalyst of danger with the aphrodisiac of love on the run, Laura Taylor brilliantly explores the tantalizing threads that bind two strangers together. Engulfed by emotions she barely understood, awakened to needs she'd never dared confess, could she silence old terrors and surrender to desire?