Protecting Her Heart

Gemma Wade has always followed the letter of the law, so when her boss accuses her of embezzlement, she's floored. Then her boss turns up dead, and Gemma is accused of murdering the woman. She goes on the run to clear her name and is forced to turn to the one man she knows she can trust—the same man whose heart she had broken seven  years ago at her family's insistence.

Ryder Magee is a loose cannon who lost his job as a cop in coastal Biloxi, Mississippi. He now works for his twin brother as a bounty hunter and private investigator. His latest task is to pick up his ex-girlfriend on a fugitive warrant. She swears she's being framed, but he doesn't believe her until someone tries to murder her, forcing the two of them to flee.

Gemma and Ryder must band together in order to save themselves—and somehow, despite the cloud of danger hanging over them, find their way back to each other in a heartfelt reunion.