After Deputy Brady Crenshaw rescues Ashley Jordan from a near-fatal mountain accident, he's shocked by her admission that she's afraid of the powerful forces in search of her. So the lawman jeopardises his career to hide her from danger. Under his protection Ashley becomes a different woman. But exactly who is Ashley Jordan? And why he can't resist her?
Justine Davis lives on Puget Sound in Washington State, watching big ships and the occasional submarine go by, and sharing the neighborhood with assorted wildlife, including a pair of bald eagles, deer, a bear or two, and a tailless raccoon. In the few hours when she's not planning, plotting, or writing her next book, her favorite things are photography, knitting her way through a huge yarn stash, and driving her restored 1967 Corvette roadster—top down, of course.