Mary Billing knows her solitary mountain life is over when a handsome stranger blows on to her land in an unmarked chopper. Terry McCoy is not only dangerous to the pretty widow's shattered senses, he's a hardened criminal no woman in her right mind would fall for. Yet there's something tender about Terry-something that makes her surrender to his searing touch. Now Mary is in deep-deep enough to be taken hostage by a villain whose true target is Terry...

The son of a notorious crime boss, Terry is about to take over his murdered father's multi-million dollar empire. But first there's the little matter of avenging his father's death-and rescuing the one woman he knows could turn his hard-bitten life around. Terry never wanted a life of crime, but suddenly he's ready to do just about anything to bring Mary back...