Oil tycoon Andrew Fairchild would sell his soul to protect Whitney Donahue. She's the one girl he's loved his whole life. And when tragedy strikes and Andrew needs to leave, he's determined to keep Whitney from knowing where he's going, and why. But when he finally comes home, he discovers that Whitney is no longer the vulnerable young girl he left behind...
Whitney never loved anyone the way she loved Andrew Fairchild—and no one hurt her the way he did. When he returns, her body remembers his touch all too well…But though Whitney is rendered helpless by his expert seduction, glorying in the way he forces her to surrender her body, she vows never to give him her heart again. But never is not a word in Andrew's vocabulary. And he will fight for her with all his heart—at all costs…