A senseless murder. A sizzling adventure.

Clare Westbrook is a survivor who built her law practice from sheer determination - and an unexpected inheritance. Now Clare, carrying her lover Tony Sonterra's child, has taken the biggest risk of all: saying yes to his marriage proposal and finally burying her lifelong commitment phobia. So why is fear running through her veins and haunting her dreams?

Sonterra is fired up to leave Phoenix for small-town Arizona to replace the town's missing police chief and target a lethal desert crime ring. Clare's willing to stand by her man, but her fiancé won't be the only one flirting with danger on the job: As a special investigator for the DA's office, Clare is plunged into a race to find a missing child whose mother was murdered - a hot case that puts Clare's safety and that of her unborn child on the edge. For in a place where secrets have nowhere to hide, the promise of Clare's bright future could vanish in the blink of an eye....