Martina Ramsey hasn't had an easy life. She's already lived through her worst nightmare, and if she doesn't find someone to help her now, she is doomed to relive it. Finding someone she could trust is virtually impossible, but when she turns to Cameron Masters, a private investigator who has been through hell himself, she feels he will understand the betrayal she has suffered, the mistrust she feels, the guilt she carries. He should. He's suffered them all himself. She knows from her own experience that the scars he hides underneath his shirt are not the only ones he has. As Cameron fights to protect his beautiful client he discovers he is losing his battle to protect himself from her. Martina is a fascinating, feisty spitfire who has a thing or two to teach him about life, about inner strength--and about love.