Firefighter Taz watches over wounded innocent Jenny Green, but as he helps her to heal, she comes to need her guardian angel's touch.

Night after night, wounded innocent Jenny Ann Green sleepwalks, reliving a nightmare. Her nearest neighbour, firefighter Taz—short for Tasmanian Devil—is a legendary sexy bastard of a dominant, but he's breaking his heart over this girl. He needs to find a way to heal her. Her silent pain awakens his own past.

Soon Taz forces Jenny to leave the safety of her house, taking her shoe shopping at the mall—even though he hates women's shoes—to a barn raising for the local coffee house and to the SPCA to adopt a forlorn golden retriever. It's not the way he'd ever thought he'd use his natural gift for dominance, protective and gentle, but the fear in Jenny's eyes is melting. Now she needs him to do more than watch over her—she needs him to touch her. But small town girls like Jenny always fall for bad boys like Taz...