"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!