All heiress Kara Mikos wants is a vacation cruise and a hot shipboard fling. When her father phones to say there is a plot to kidnap her, she brushes it off as another of his many attempts to control her life.Private security expert Harper Long doesn’t mean to fall for his client’s sexy daughter but what better way to keep her close enough to protect? Granting his libido free rein comes with a price, though—a treasure he’s not willing to lose.

Book 2 in the Long and Hard series. Olivia Worthington has a problem. A guy she barely knows has stolen precious jewels from the museum where she works, and it's all her fault. Distrustful of the police, she seeks her ex-boyfriend's help. When she draws him into a hornet's nest of trouble, she wonders if he'll walk away for good. Computer geek and security expert Grady Long was just starting to get over Olivia when she shows up on his boat begging for help. How is he supposed to resist the woman who regularly walks through his dreams? But his weakness for her may cost him more than he has to give.