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When I wrote Cody Walker’s Woave my heroine, Keira Jones, four brothers—all older, all forood and bad) in shaping the woman she was

Then I wrote Alec’s Royal Assignment and Liam’s Witness Protection, the stories of two of Keira’s brothers But even as I riting Alec’s and Liam’s stories, in the back of est influence on all his younger siblings

But Shane wasn’t easy to get to know—he eluded est time It wasn’t until a personal family crisis that Shane became real to me, and I knehat could make a nearly invincible man vulnerable Then I just had to write his story

After I understood Shane I realized I needed to find a tough-as-nails heroine toheart hidden beneath that tiger-shark exterior Along came Carly Edwards, just in the nick of tiet to know, either, because there’s nothing of Carly in me (I wish!) Once I accepted that, however, I suddenly kneho Carly was—a woman whose private pain once ain

Shane and Carly fought the odds and won, and in doing so won my heart Isn’t that e all look for in a hero and heroine? Isn’t that e read romance?

I love hearing from my readers Please email me atand let me knohat you think

Amelia Autin

Prologue

Shane Jones, junior senator from Colorado, lay in his hospital bed in the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, staring in disbelief at the barrage of doctors and interns asseone anywhere for nosis—and had, with no results—but he’d chosen the Mayo Clinic Hospital when a doctor friend from his days in the Marine Corps had recommended it No other medical professional he’d consulted had ever even heard of his symptoms, much less had been able to put a name to them But the doctors here had

“Epilepsy?” he repeated, stunned He still couldn’t seenosis “ButI don’t have seizures All I have are these little episodes where I suddenly feel chilled for no reason That’s all It can’t be epilepsy”