All ex-agent Rafe Blackhorse wanted was to capture the man he'd been hired to retrieve and head back to his secluded life in the mountains. Unfortunately, an unforseen shoot-out forced him to protect both his client's best interests and one very attractive computer specialist named Meg Kavanagh.

Rafe soon realized that Meg was trouble with a capital T. An elusive killer was stalking her every move, and now Rafe's life was in danger, too. But all of Rafe's field training hadn't prepared him for a mission in which keeping his heart intact was going to be the biggest challenge of all???

NAOMI HORTON was born in northern Alberta, where the winters are long and the libraries far apart. "When I'd run out of books," she says, "I'd simply create my own-entire worlds filled with people, adventure and romance. I guess it's not surprising that I'm still at it!" This Rita award-winning author is an engineering technologist who she presently lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia, with her collection of assorted pets.