Strikingly exotic Jaunie Sterling was the perfect decoy for suspicious wives out to test their husbands' fidelity. That's what Intimate Investigations paid her to do, and her success was impressive. No man had ever failed to fall into her seductive trap—before Trent Douglas, that is. Not that he didn't want her. On the contrary, her smooth cinnamon skin and deep tawny eyes rattled every inch of him. But he was a faithfully engaged man and declined Jaunie's enticing advances.

Years later, Jaunie still thought about Trent Douglas. Although she'd only been doing her job, she'd never forgotten the icy stare he gave her when he realized he'd been set up. Now Jaunie is part owner in her own P.I. firm, and their paths are about to cross again—this time in a case that involves Trent. Suddenly, there's no dodging each other, or the irrepressible desire they've been trying to deny. But when someone begins stalking Jaunie—someone with a deadly message—to hold on to love, she must first hold on to her life.…