Look but don't touch... Words to live by for Jarek Denko, a man looking to forget his past and find his future in Eden. He has a department to run, a daughter to raise and an investigation to solve. A relationship with any woman would be a distraction, but one with reporter Tess DeLucca - the sister of one of his prime suspects - could be his undoing. Getting up close and personal with Eden's new chief of police is part of Tess' job. So is remaining dispassionate, objective and in control...three things that might be possible if she trusted cops. And if she weren't so damn attracted to this one!

Fay Harper comes to spend the summer at her aunt's lakeside cottage in Eden, Illinois. Instead of finding peace and quiet, she finds Aleksy Denko, brother of Jarek Denko (All A Man Can Do), hanging around at the end of the dock. Since Alek is in fact on a stake-out watching the gun runners who are headquartered directly across the lake, he decides it would be best to just move-in.

Leaving the Losers in Your LifeThat was Nicole Reed's goal. And then he opened the door. Long, lean, gorgeous and definitely rough around the edges, Mark DeLucca was everything Nicole longed for - and everything she'd come to Eden to avoid. Then she started hearing the rumors about Mark. And stumbled across his secret. Seems that Mark had just inherited a son he'd never known about. Now the ex-military man was fumbling with being a daddy and turning to Nicole for help both day and night. But was this newfound need something Nicole could believe was just for her?

Stolen Memory by Virginia Kantra released on Jan 25, 2005 is available now for purchase.