"I'm going to stick close to you... closer than a lover, but I'm not going to touch you... " He called himself Duke and, like a prince on a charger, he'd rescued Stephanie from a nightmare kidnap situation. Stephanie felt it would be foolish to trust him when, it seemed, his tender passion could change without warning to uncompromising ruthlessness. In effect, she was still a hostage... to Duke's smoldering sexuality – to her own desire. And she couldn't help wondering what the price of her freedom would be!