All Vicki Kent wants is a few days of off-season isolation at her parents' windswept Cape Cod home. But instead of blissful solitude, she's greeted by a gun-toting stranger -- and a sudden, fierce attraction she can definitely do without. Thanks to a mix up, she'll be sharing her hideaway with Detective Lieutenant John Paolillo, a man whose haunted eyes tell her he needs refuge as much as she does.
John's job was his life. Now on mandatory leave, he's alone and adrift -- until Vicki shows up. After what he's been through, he should dislike everything about the cool blonde defense attorney with the Ivy League degree. Little does he know that a few days of beach-walking and kite-flying can do wonders for a pair of surprisingly similar souls -- and for two healing hearts that might just belong together...