Him! It was him! Yesterday he'd terrified her, tracking her through Washington. Today he infuriated her, barging into her office to introduce himself -- Reid Mecena, the Arizona senator's son.

The sophisticated East and the rugged West had met. Clearly they were worlds apart. Smart, sensible, a senator's daughter, Loren Randolph knew better than to succumb to a brash stranger in cowboy boots who raved about transporting her to fields of flowering bluebonnets. Yet in that moment of meeting her fate, her future was sealed. He'd trailed her, transfixed her with his caresses, and tomorrow shed be his, trapped even when it seemed love had fled -- by memories of passion, bound by dreams of enduring love.