Jake Hill was a driven man, beset by a nightmare past few had faced--and survived. Now to be touched was agony. And to be loved was..impossible. For Jake was a time bomb, ticking relentlessly toward zero hour. And the one woman who dared to care risked something infinitely more devastating--and dangerous--than a broken heart..Whitney Tate stood on the ancient Indian burial gournds, feeling their power pulsing in the Arizona sands. Here, more than anywhere, she might have a chance to reach Jake Hill and pull him back from his own encroaching darkness. For this was a place for truth-telling. And the one world-shattering truth in her web of deception was her love for this man on the edge.