Years ago, Notches Mackay separated himself from his family, except for the two cousins who gave him the only family base he'd ever known. Now, he's being dragged back into his father's life in a way that could destroy him and the only woman he's ever felt a spark for...

Government agent Chaya Dane has fought to put her past behind her -- until a mission in Somerset, Kentucky, puts Natches back in her dreams. He makes her forget about a dark past that still haunts her. He makes her feel that she deserves something she has never known -- happiness in the arms of a man who loves her. But Natches has his own dark shadows -- those cast by his father, who has fallen under suspicion in the theft of government missiles -- and they could cost Chaya more than she ever imagined.