"Fast-paced and full of heat, this is romantic suspense done right!" —New York Times bestseller Julie Ann Walker

U. S. Marshal Galen Kelly does whatever it takes to protect and serve—rules be damned. Especially when those rules try to keep him from the woman who stole his heart.

Newbie reporter Harper Allen never forgot the time she was saved from disaster by a handsome stranger—or the sensual night that followed. After he leaves the next morning without a word, she realizes she can't be too upset about the best night a man ever gave her. She could never have predicted that one year later she would be face to face with the handsome stranger—only now he is the man assigned to protect her from a senator's killer.

Galen Kelley still remembers every moment of that sizzling night with Harper. But with both a killer and the FBI on their trail, Galen needs to protect her life by pretending he was never a part of it. When he finds himself struggling to toe the professional line with the unforgettable Harper, he wonders if the very rules he was so fond of breaking were designed to protect her—or him.

Contains mature themes.