Open Your Heart

Their family's historic bed-and-breakfast in Charleston, South Carolina, is a legacy the four very different Richardson sisters are determined to protect at all costs. But sudden passion is a seductive—and dangerous—complication …

For fashion boutique owner Yolanda Richardson, coming home is a matter of life and death. Witness to a brutal crime, her family's quiet BB is her only refuge until she can testify against the perpetrator. But her reserved hired bodyguard,

Charles Montgomery, is anything but safe. His icy cool-under-fire—and hidden intensity—is too explosive for Yolanda to resist …

Love always equals loss—Charles knows that hard equation all too well. Controlling his emotions keeps his clients from harm—and his heart safe. Yolanda's beauty and headstrong spirit have him wanting her in all kinds of ways.

But for her own protection, he has to do his best to keep her at arm's length. Until unexpected danger and lethal misunderstandings put their survival—and any chance at a future together—on the knife-edge …