Dr. Logan Hart was just passing through Black Horse Beach, but when gunshots sent country veterinarian Samantha Blackwell ducking for cover beneath his rock-hard body, she instinctively knew that the macho medical investigator would stick around to keep her safe. Although the sheriff's daugther had sworn to never fall for another tough guy again, her new tenant's smoldering intensity lit a raging fire in her heart... and kept the terror at bay. As they set up a sting operation to take down the revenge-seeking criminal who was clearly trying to get to Logan through Samantha, chilling new evidence came to light.

Now Samantha wondered who the real target was-- and whether she would stay alive long enough to succumb to the boldly seductive man she'd been saving all her love for!