In Behind Closed Doors and Standing in the Shadows, Shannon McKenna introduced the McCloud intense, rugged, and super-sexy. Now, Davy McCloud is about to meet a woman he can't trust--or live without. . .

Disillusioned P.I. Davy McCloud has an ironclad never follow blind impulse when it comes to women. But he breaks it the instant gorgeous Margo Vetter shows up to teach at the gym next door. The sexual hunger--and the instinctual protectiveness--that she awakens is much too strong to resist.

Broke and on the run, framed for a murder she didn't commit, Margot has no one to turn to but Davy McCloud. But the closer he comes, the more Margot discovers that holding back--or hiding--from this enigmatic, powerful man is impossible. In every way. . .

Then passion flares with unexpected intensity. But Margot's past has finally caught up with her, and life is about to get more than complicated. It's turning deadly. . .