Tender Refuge
She appeared to the world as a successful free-lance journalist-- a sleek, sophisticated young woman. Who would have believed that Rikki Logan was actually a security agent hired to protect the man who seemed to be her escort? It was a life filled with risks that Rikki had been trained to take, just as she'd learned to steel herself against the sexual and romantic advances of men like Mark Damien. But Damien was proving the exception to her iron rule. From New York to Rio de Janeiro she struggled to maintain an icy distance as his searing kisses threatened to melt her every defense. And, as the secrets of the past and the intrigue of the moment swept them into mortal danger, as the fever of passion mounted, she would be forced to ask herself who was protecting whom, and which of them was most vulnerable, not merely to passion, but to the still deeper perils of love.