Justine Davis lives on Puget Sound in Washington State, watching big ships and the occasional submarine go by, and sharing the neighborhood with assorted wildlife, including a pair of bald eagles, deer, a bear or two, and a tailless raccoon. In the few hours when she's not planning, plotting, or writing her next book, her favorite things are photography, knitting her way through a huge yarn stash, and driving her restored 1967 Corvette roadster-top down, of course.

He'd always been an outsider. And Grant McClureliked it that way. Stepson to the Fortunes, he'd made hisown destiny without the family's riches?or their love. Butnow the rugged loner had found someone who needed him.Meredith Brady's life was on the line, and Grant's ranch washer only refuge. But she found herself in even greater dangerwhen she fell for a man whose gruff exterior could notconceal a passion too long denied....