A magnificent romance classic from Janet Dailey—America’s greatest storyteller and author of the Americana romance series!

Three years after free-spirited Shari Sutherland escaped from the Lancaster family patriarchs, she returned home because of her mother’s stroke. There she was reunited with Whit Lancaster, her rugged stepbrother—and suddenly her feelings for him were anything but sisterly.

But Whit wanted sole possession of the raven-haired beauty. And even as Shari rebelled against his arrogance, she knew he was the only man she would ever want…the one man whose strong touch would arouse her deepest passion!