Maggie Sullivan had no choice. Her latest assignment as an efficiency expert demanded that she ride with Police Sergeant Jared Walsh--though after their first, humiliating encounter, she'd hoped they'd never meet again. He exuded a danger heightened by his steely professionalism, his intoxicating sensuality...

Yet his silken lover's touch moved her as no other man ever had-while his devotion to duty barred them from a deeper sharing. Lost in love, Maggie struggles to reach the gentle man inside, the man whose passion burns, whose absence wounds...