Since childhood, Laura Valentine had struggled to be someone she wasn't. Finally she'd created a comic-strip alter ego --- a sleek, sophisticated fictional heroine who never faltered. Now Laura's editors demanded a love interest for her famous character --- a masculine, sexy hunk worthy of the world's most perfect woman.

Uninspired, Laura drew a blank ... until the ideal man appeared in the flesh. She had no idea that the stranger who introduced himself as Simon Hunter was actually an undercover agent closing in on a ruthless murderer.

As she began to model her cartoon hero after the intriguing Simon, Laura unwittingly invaded his perilous, passionate world. Soon they were entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse, stalked by danger ... and tantalized by desire ...