As Christmastime settled quietly over the countryside, government agent "Crash" Hawken was faced with a deadly conspiracy. And he had only one person to turn to -the caring, passionate Nell Burns. For though Crash had long ago accepted the fact that there was no place in his dangerous world for the simple pleasures of home and family, Nell had been the only woman who had ever tempted him to dream of another kind of life..

Now, as he needed Nell more than ever before, he was beginning to see all that they could have together. What the future might be. If only he could be assured that they had one...