He was always just one step behind her

Wherever Dee went, Mike Carridine followed. Not a bodyguard, not a lover, but a private investigator hired to track her down.

She'd been running for nine months, attempting to elude him. Sooner or later she'd have to stop.

And on that day she would be forced to surrender to Mike Carridine--and allow him to return her to the vicious relatives and unwanted fortune she'd so desperately tried to escape....