Their love was an oasis...

Keith Martin made himself a hero the night he rescued Laura Caldwell from a would-be attacker. He also became the subject of her tantalizing fantasies. Laura didn't need her skill as a psychologist to diagnose her response to him; it went far beyond gratitude.

And her passion for the rugged anthropologist was more than physical. Even when she discovered he was keeping part of his life from her, she had to have him. She would always need him. Just as the desert needs rain....