Dr. Rio Madrid, first introduced in Kristi Gold's best-selling miniseries, Marrying An M.D., a man so compelling no woman has dared to love him -- yet.

A stranger's kiss on New Year's Eve had Joanna Blake nearly swooning -- the last thing the struggling midwife needed. She never dreamed they'd meet again in a hospital delivery room, where she'd be working at the side of sexy-as-sin Dr. Rio Madrid, and on the verge of accepting his dangerously tempting invitation.

When their lips touched at the stroke of midnight, Rio was lost in the sweetest sensual torment he'd every known. Opening his lavish home to the strapped single mother was just borrowing trouble, for his reluctant Cinderella would soon learn that he was no fantasy prince. Unless Joanna found a way to liberate this rebel healer from his lonely life and free his heart to love.