IT SEEMED LIKE A LIFETIME AGO

Investigating Jessica Moore was the toughest assignment that Rourke Caldwell had ever been handed as a corporate-crime specialist. When he'd known her, she'd been an innocent, light-years away from the sophisticated professional she was today.

Usually Rourke could trust his instincts and the facts. But this case was different.

Every time he stumbled on evidence that could convict her, Rourke remembered the blind farm girl who'd lovingly traced his features with trembling fingers as they kissed in the rain, remembered how , in the seven long years since they'd parted, he couldn't forget her .. .