Sparks fly when a gutsy investigative reporter meets a handsome state senator. But attempts on her life -- and a political scandal involving murder -- threaten to drive them apart...

It's been years since her child's father dumped her, and since then investigative reporter Kara McMillan has kept men at bay--although every day she aches more for a lover's touch. But to get that, the independent journalist must become vulnerable--a feeling she vowed never to have again.

With his dangerous good looks, charm, and power, Senator Reece Sheridan could have just about any woman he sets his piercing eyes on. But he's intrigued by only one. This Kara, this gutsy investigative reporter, has a sensuality that arouses him to no end. If she's a firebrand in print, he guesses, she must be just as fiery in bed...

But this is no fling. A sudden political scandal-and attempts on Kara's life-could very well drive them apart. Or maybe, just maybe, adversity could draw them into a bond even more intense than their steamy sexual embraces...