Can the man who sparks her passion be trusted with her life? Or is someone using Clare, the one person Tony has dared to get close to, to get to him? Either way, someone plans to make her pay for the past . . . A multi-million-dollar inheritance from the father she never knew has allowed devoted defense lawyer Clare Westbrook to start her own practice. And with her teenage niece, Emma - whom she has raised as a daughter - on a school trip to Europe, Cl has been able to focus on turning a storefront in a tough Phoenix neighborhood into the legal firm of her dreams, and offering her services to the troubled community. But just as she opens her storefront, shots take out her windows - and nearly take her life. Clare doesn't know who did it or why, but she knows she must surrender to sexy homicide detective Tony Sonterra's protection if she wants to survive.