The leather–jacketed stranger was clearly as dangerous as any man Randi Cullen had ever set eyes on. But she couldn't abandon him – or the defenceless baby with him – to the rain swept Texas night....

She offered them both a refuge on her isolated ranch. And when she learned that Manuel Sanchez was an undercover federal agent hunting a ruthless killer, she even agreed to marriage – in name only – to protect his cover....

But having this man in her life was touching off a storm of desire in an untouched woman's heart – a storm from which she feared she would never find shelter...