Out in the cold Liane Daley desperately vowed to do anything to protect her son from her own father—even though her father had the money and the power to take Patrick from her. Then Jake Brande swept into her life, flooding her senses with his heady sensuality—and providing a solution. Tough and supremely capable of apparently anything, the vacationing cop agreed to protect Patrick. He refused Liane's money—his kiss extracting payment of a far more costly nature. With Jake around, Liane knew her son was safe. But was her heart?