Life and heart in danger.

Kim Revis is back in Camp Oro, the historic gold town where she spent her youth both to advise the museum's staff in improving its security system and to help her beloved grandmother prepare the family home to be sold.

What she doesn't expect is to be drawn to Grandma's handsome attorney Mark Stockton—or for him to play a vital role in safeguarding the museum's treasures.

Mark, who is devoted to Kim's grandmother, has no choice but to agree when Margaret begs him to help her keep secrets from Kim, to lie to the woman he's falling in love with.

A cave-in collapses the mine tunnel between Camp Oro and where Kim is staying. Despite her unease when she's near the dark hole, she wants to explore it—with Mark. To spend as much time as possible getting to know him. He warns her not to trust those she'll be working with, but he's protective of her grandmother. That has to be why he acts like he does when he's around her.

It isn't as if she'll need defending, as if there's risk to her body and heart.