He'd always been an outsider.

And Grant McClure liked it that way. Stepson to the Fortunes, he'd made his own destiny without the family's riches–or their love. But now the rugged loner had found someone who needed him.

Meredith Brady's life was on the line, and Grant's ranch was her only refuge.

But she found herself in even greater danger when she fell for a man whose gruff exterior could not conceal a passion too long denied….