Her desperate plan to save her brother left Melanie Andrews with a dead body on her hands, a killer at her heels and nowhere to run—except into Roderick Laughlin's arms. As soon as she saw the seductive, self-made man in the crowded ballroom, she knew she'd found a temporary haven. And as the clock struck twelve, Melanie pressed a burning kiss on his lips and escaped into the night, thinking she'd never see him again.

She thought wrong.

The taste of her was seared into his mind, and there was nowhere Roderick's mysterious Cinderella could hide. Because she'd gotten mixed up in a deadly game, one only Roderick could protect her from—as soon as he convinced her he was the only man to trust....