"I'm going to stick close to you…closer than a lover, but I'm not going to touch you…"
He called himself Duke and, like a prince on a charger, he'd rescued Stephanie from a nightmare kidnap situation.
Stephanie felt it would be foolish to trust him when, it seemed, his tender passion could change without warning to uncompromising ruthlessness.
In effect, she was still a hostage…to Duke's smoldering sexuality—to her own desire. And she couldn't help wondering what the price of her freedom would be!