Missing from duty with the Secret Service and captured by the enemy, Mr. Hugh Haddington waited for death as a means to escape his personal hell. Instead, an angel came to his rescue.
Overwhelmed by her sense of compassion, Charlotte Bexley brought a dying man home with her. Despite her steadfast mistrust of men, Charlotte feels that she can open herself to another man for the first time since her husband's death...until she learns that Hugh's captors would do anything to have him back. Including kidnapping her sons. Fearful for her sons' lives, Charlotte enlists the help of the one man sure to know the kidnapper's motivation, and the one man she's unsure she can resist.