Daddy's girl no more, single mom Jenny Holloway is determined to start over in Santa Fe without any help from her family or their millions. Miles from home, and from her menacing ex-husband, Jenny is caught off-guard by her fierce attraction to a handsome, enigmatic loner -- and by her own growing suspicion that she's being followed.

Bound by utmost secrecy and bent on revenge, Hunter Calgary has warily taken the alluring Jenny under his wing. She can never know why his path crossed hers -- nor why he refuses to let her out of his sight. Now, as a shadowy menace edges ever closer, Hunter is torn between his thirst for retaliation against the stranger who shattered his world -- and his growing hunger for the woman who must never guess the truth about his motives -- or his emotions.