Detective Atticus Ware left his Idaho ranch to start over in the California mountains. He wants to be close to his imprisoned brother. Although he's found good friends, the experienced Dominant wants more than the "do me" submissives flocking around him. He needs a woman to give her heart as well as her body.

Exhausted from propping up her engagement, Virginia Cunningham flees to a social worker job far away in a California prison. Invited to observe BDSM classes on a wilderness camping trip, she's shocked-her fiancé insisted BDSM was a fabrication to sell books. But when Atticus lures her into participating, she learns submission under the hands of a powerful Dom is beyond anything she'd imagined. Nonetheless, she can't permit a relationship-she'd just lose herself again.

Finally, Atticus has found the woman he wants in his life. In his bed. In his cuffs.

Although she wants him in turn, she still backs away. Well...if he has to help a little counselor get her head on straight, he's just the Dom for the job.

" How could she tell the teacher no? Her reluctant feet carried her to the Dom. Why did being rude seem like a worse offense than a nice, simple murder?"

Note: Full-length, more-than-spicy romance with no cliff hanger and no cheating. A protective, dominant hero. A vulnerable, intelligent heroine. Page-turning adventure, sigh-worthy romance, hilarious girl-gang moments...and a big ol' rescue mutt.

Note: Previously published with 1001 Dark Nights