As James Farraday rode past on his polo pony, Anne

Kitteridge sighed. The man was impossibly handsome.

with Robert Redford s jaw, Cary Grant s smile, and a

delectably muscled body that would make any woman

melt! She d known him aft her life. had once made

a fool of herseff over him. and now she insisted she

was immune to his charms.., until he offered her a

proposition she couldn t refuse. But agreeing to keep

Battle Cry, James s extraordinary horse, at her

breeding farm meant she d have to work tn dtsturbmgly

intimate conditions with the one man who drew her

into an emotional whirlwind, made her yearn to be

possessed, to choose ecstasy in his arms. For years

Anne had been James s obsessien this elegant.

spiritea women who challenged a man to break

through the steel and embrace the rose underneath

but he believed she d settle for no less than oerfectJon.

Would revealing his private struggle mean losing the

only prize he d ever wanted?