Born To Protect

Jack Dalton was out of the business of saving lives – until his expertise was needed to safeguard Princess Christina Sebastiani of Montebello from dangerous kidnappers.

Holed up together day in and day out in a Montana hideaway, the brooding bodyguard and the scholarly virgin battled flaring tempers – and smoldering passions.

Yet, despite their friction, Christina clearly ached for much more than Jack's fierce protection, and she beckoned him irresistibly close whenever she gazed up at him with her trusting blue eyes.

Why, if Jack didn't watch out, the blushing princess just might penetrate the bulletproof armor around his world-weary heart!

About the author

VIRGINIA KANTRA credits her enthusiasm for strong heroes and courageous heroines to a childhood spent devouring fairy tales. After graduating from Northwestern University with honours in English, she shared her love of books as a children’s storyteller. She still visits classrooms on Valentine’s Day dressed as the Queen of Hearts. When her youngest child started school, Virginia fulfilled her dream of writing full-time. Her first book, The Reforming of Matthew Dunn, won RWA’s Golden Heart Award for Best Romantic Suspense, received the Holt Medallion and was nominated by Romantic Times Magazine as Best First Series Romance in 1998. Her second book, The Passion of Patrick MacNeill, was Golden Heart finalist and Maggie Award winner, a Romantic Times Magazine Top Pick and a winner of a W.I.S.H. hero award. Virginia is married to her college sweetheart, a musician disguised as an executive. They live in Raleigh, North Carolina, with three children, two cats, a dog and various blue-tailed lizards that live under the siding of their home. Her favourite thing to make for dinner is reservations.