She believed in happy endings When romance writer Sarah Fleetwood hired an ex-adventurer to help her locate an old family heirloom, she fully intended to live out her secret fantasy. Anew Gideon Trace was it. Dark, mysterious, dangerously appealing, he personified the heroes she'd dreamed and written about. But the real man was much harder to figure out. Sharing a cozy cabin in the mountains with Gideon didn't help. Sarah had to unveil his shadowy past before she could fulfill her quest for the long-buried treasure—and the perfect mate. Only then could reality match fiction .. . .