In ten years with the FBI, Damien Perry had posed as a drug lord, a terrorist, even a hit man. Now the thrill was gone. But what would he do if he quit? Maybe the answer was in the mail, on the card from Marian Olivia Jensen – Molly, as he remembered her. The earthy redhead who aroused unfamiliar fantasies of a wife and family in his jaded soul.

Molly Jensen was finally safe from her menacing ex–husband – until he was released from jail. Now the threatening phone calls wouldn't stop. Molly knew there was only one man who could help her: Damien Perry. His charade as her live–in lover was ingenious, but how long could she pretend to be pretending?