After a night-shift shooting of a drug dealer in The Coffee Cave,thirteen strangers each walk out with more than $100,000 in dirtymoney, a pact never to meet again, and the chance to start over ...And boy does Whitney need it. After running from her small town—full of small-minded people, and one particular guy with pitifully small dreams—Whitney is an activist with a very big world to save. Eventually her quest brings her to a political rally for Arizona Senator, [NAME], who's nothing but one huge package of wrong. But after the rally a heated debate leads to even hotter bathroom sex . . . with the Senator's son. With dirty money in her hands and her sense of right and wrong knocked all askew, Whitney retreats to the place where she knew for sure who she wanted to be.But the first person she runs into in tiny Creek Wash, AZ is the boy who wasn't big enough for her. Five years later Nate's fireman and, as far as she can tell, the town hero. And deservedly so if even half the stories she's hearing are true. And if those washboard abs and muscular arms are any indication, there's nothing small about Nate anymore.