New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard weaves intense emotion, potent suspense, and breath-taking action into her most seductive thriller to date.

Loyal. Beautiful. Potentially lethal. Sarah Stevens is a woman with many distinct qualities. Skilled at running large households efficiently, she is also a trained bodyguard and expert marksman - indispensable to her current employer, an elderly judge who has hired her to protect him.

Relentless action and passionate emotion!

As a former cheerleader, Blair Mallory was accustomed to jealousy, but really, you'd think people would get over it. Blair is immersed in her wedding plans when someone tries to run her over. Her fiance, Wyatt Bloodsworth, thinks the episode was just an accident, but Blair knows the attempt was deliberate - and just the beginning.

When four female colleagues at a Michigan corporation compile a list of qualities that would make up the perfect man, they unwittingly unleash a murderer who targets them for the perfect murder--one at a time.

After a painful divorce, Blair Mallory follows her dream and opens a health club. But Nicole Goodwin, a troubled member of the club, develops a strange fixation on Blair, imitating her style and dress, even the car she drives. Then Nicole is gunned down in the club's parking lot. And Blair is the only witness to the murder.