If Colby Judd had known her and her family would be in mortal danger when she started her arduous quest to fi nd the truth of her father's death eighteen years previous, would she have done it? The question was moot. Because here she was in that exact position. To top it off, after having no one but herself to rely on for the eighteen years following her father's death, she fi nds herself in a position where she has to trust a ruggedly handsome stranger, Hayden Sullivan, who seems to know her family history almost as well as she does. Puzzled by her attraction to Hayden, she struggles to maintain control of her emotions while her life spins out of control.