District Attorney "AJ" Jacobs was finally closing in on the ruthless criminal she'd been tracking. But she couldn't take him down without help–from the last man in the world she wanted in her life.... Nobody knew Chicago's dark side like crime reporter Dare McKay. Nobody knew how to haunt a woman's fevered dreams–or break her fragile heart–like him, either.... And this man was AJ's unwelcome protector as she worked to solve the most dangerous case of her career. But he was the real danger–because she had never stopped loving him.