She is a contradiction, one woman with two lives. She is Shannon, one of the worlds great beauties, her face and figure gracing the fashion pages of the worlds most elegant magazines. She is also Holly, a fragile innocent, haunted by painful memories of her pastand by dreams of the man who once shared her secrets. She is assured yet vulnerable, irresistible yet untouched.

Destiny has brought Holly Shannon North back to Hidden Springs, where she can be one person, where romance once touched her tender young heart. Here Lincoln McKenzie waitsthe proud California rancher, long since hardened by his lifes tragedies. Now, in the icy chill of a desert storm, together they must somehow find the way back to love . . . and rekindle a fire whose healing warmth will truly draw them home.

A classic story of love and redemption from the incomparable New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell