Asking the wrong people the wrong questions, Shannon Brown barely escapes with her life and crosses paths with a handsome outlaw who cannot resist a lady in distress. Moved by the troubled stranger, Derek Ross agrees to help Shannon elude her pursuers. But the ferocity of his desire for Shannon stuns him, and mystifies her. She's known so much hurt in matters of the heart. Drawn into a shadowy world of danger and deception, Shannon is reborn in the arms of a man who lives by no one's rules.
