She's sure he's too young for her-he knows she's exactly what he needs. A case of mistaken identity sends them on a run for their lives through the Arizona desert, where their need for each other is all they have.

Forty-four year old Liz Williams intends to put a stop to the affair between her daughter and her daughter's archaeology professor.

But she's unprepared for the six-foot-three, thirty-two year old Native American man who turns out to be Professor Thornton Hawkins-and the men who try to kill him.