He has every reason to keep his distance. She has every reason to distrust him. But the heart has never been good at following orders. The whole of Colorado is buzzing over the coming solar eclipse - but Caleb Marlowe has bigger trouble on his hands. Reluctantly pinned with a deputy's badge for the event, he's no sooner arrived in Elkhorn than he learns of a plot to assassinate the town's most powerful judge. And riding straight into the middle of it all is a ghost from Caleb's darkest past - a man he didn't think he'd ever have to face again. Sheila Burnett is working hard to build her place in Elkhorn. Independent, principled, and determined to prove herself in a world that underestimates her at every turn, she is done being swept up in Caleb Marlowe's dangerous orbit. She tells herself she feels nothing for him anymore. She is absolutely, completely wrong. When the threat against the judge escalates and Caleb is forced to confront not just a ruthless enemy but the secret that has haunted him since boyhood, it's Sheila who knows him for who he really is - a man of fierce loyalty and a capacity for love he has never allowed himself to show. -- Amazon.com