Family Matters

Discovering a ripe corpse doesn't shake Jenny Tyler as much as corporate troubleshooter Gabe Daniels does. He's everything she despises - profane, disheveled, and entirely too male - and he's convinced she knows something about the dead man. Gabe hates prim, skinny women whose accents ring his bell, but when the deceased's house explodes and Jenny's home is searched, he receives orders to keep her safe. His own family secrets pale next to the horror of Jenny's family connections, and the growing attraction between them fills their cross-country search for the source of their danger with romance.

Justine Wittich is a former journalist and jack of all trades who abandoned the glamor of her past jobs - teaching, editing, publicizing and "secretarying" - to write the stories that grabbed hold of her imagination and wouldn't let go. She lives in rural southeast Ohio with her husband, Pete. They are owned by party cat and a princess cat.