He's her only protection – and the last man she expected to love! Gorgeous Green Beret Luc didn't plan to spend his leave teaching a debutante survival skills. But a powerful congressman's daughter outranks him. Luc's dreading it – until he meets sassy Claire. Oh, the things he can teach this woman. . . She's spirited and won't back down without a fight, yet educating Claire fires up Luc's most passionate primal instincts, and his beautiful pupil is a quick learner. This hard-bitten soldier is soon falling for his feisty charge, until the pull of their different lives threatens to tear them apart...