Leigh...She was terrifyingly alone on a Texas highway about to deliver her first child when a rugged stranger in a pickup truck stopped to help her. Leigh Bransom had lost her husband eight months before when he was tragically killed on the job. Now a fateful meeting on a lonesome highway brought a new man into her life - one with secrets and the power to make her lonely once again.

Chad...A man who pursued a dangerous business, Chad Dillon kept his past a mystery. He was determined to make Leigh care for him, but there were no guarantees that his love could protect her from the very thing she feared most.

Sandra Brown is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers - including most recently The Crush, Envy, and The Switch - many of which reached #1. There are sixty million copies of her books in print, and her work has been translated into thirty languages. She and her husband live in Fort Worth, Texas.