About This Book
Jensen Khars is a career-oriented woman who lives an isolated life. She's not particularly close to her family, she doesn't date, and she's not all that interested in life going on around her. She doesn't even trouble herself to pay attention to the news beyond a glance or two at a television screen as she's walking through an electronics store or a quick look at a newspaper as she waits in line at the grocery store. However, all of that changes when Jensen finds what appears to be spam in her email folder and opens it to find a vivid, full-color picture of two children who have been missing for several months. Stunned to see eight-year-old Reno Miller and his three-year-old half-sister, McCormick Jones, in her living room, Jensen's reaction is immediate and visceral. Uncertain what it means that the photo was sent to her email address, she calls the police and finds herself suddenly emotionally involved in the children's welfare and that of their family. Zeke Pressley, the detective who responds to Jensen's call, isn't what she expected to find on her doorstep. She was looking for a uniform cop, and Zeke is a plain-clothed detective who looks like a misplaced beach bum. Zeke is struck with lust-at-first-sight when Jensen answers the door, but when he sees the picture on her computer screen, he pushes his personal feelings aside and does his job. His gut instinct tells him Jensen has nothing to do with the missing children, and in the days that follow, he returns to her home to check on her and finds himself quickly enthralled with her feisty attitude and her dark, brooding eyes. Fast friends, they jump into a mutually satisfying physical relationship, though Jensen worries that she is leading him on. She's not interested in love and marriage, she most definitely does not want her own family, and Zeke Pressley is a family kind of man. Zeke worries about Jensen's unhealthy interest in the case of the missing children and her involvement with the family and even warns her to walk away. With Jensen defying Zeke's orders, the despair and bewilderment she feels about the missing children, and both of them dodging Zeke's well-meaning, overstepping family, can they find their way to true love and happiness?
