EVEN IN THE DARKNESS OF THE MOONLIT NIGHT HE SAW THE PASSION BLAZING IN HER GREEN EYES....

His kiss was hot and powerful, a primal act of male domination. She hated him, hated herself for responding to Mitch Durant, the man who stole her heart with a kiss, the lawyer who destroyed her father in court five years earlier. Now she was back, engaged to another man--but determined to get even ....Until she was framed for theft and murder and Mitch was her only way out. His price for defending her was total trust--and a promise to never investigate his shrouded past ....

Royce was a journalist at the top of her form, challenging him with her beauty, brains--and a fiance Mitch despised. But not even Mitch Durant, San Francisco's top criminal attorney, could have anticipated the felony-murder charges that drove her into his arms. He was her only refuge. Mitch, the man she hated, was willing to risk his life to clear her name--and to catch the killer who stalked her every move ....