ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 2001...re-released for eBooks.A woman in desperate straits...An unlikely savior in leather and jeans...Out of gas on a lonely mountain road, Tess Marsh is in desperate need of rescue when a leather-clad biker named Dallas Haynes appears, followed by a nasty-looking biker gang. Before Tess can protest, Dallas purposefully claims her as his woman and spirits her away on the back of his Harley. Now at the mercy of a man who could break through her defenses, Tess fights her conflicting desires to escape from or to fall for her captor. Unbeknownst to anyone, Dallas is on a dangerous mission, and his growing passion for Tess has become a complication that could hurt them both.From BooklistInspired by Montana's big night sky, Tess Marsh is so busy designing jewelry in her head, she doesn't realize that her car is running out of gas. A dangerously sexy biker shows up and claims her as his own when the rest of the biker gang appears. Dallas Haynes takes Tess to the unsavory outlaws' hideout, and she soon falls in love with him and surrenders her virginity. Then the FBI arrives, and his true identity is revealed: he's undercover agent Grey Thomas. Whisked away into protective custody to await the murder trial of two gang members, Tess discovers that she is pregnant. After nearly killing her in the courtroom, the bad guys escape, leading to an action-packed adventure. In spite of a near overload of the latest hip romance tropes--long-haired bad-boy biker, clean-shaven and well-dressed FBI agent, gorgeous jewelry designer with big breasts and rich parents, pregnancy, crime syndicates, and sizzling and explicit sex--Bach's tale is a real page-turner. Diana Tixier HeraldCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedReviewA five-star read complete with a mouth-watering hero, sizzling passion, and spine-tingling suspense. -- Rendezvous, November 2001Chilling danger and menacing treachery form the intense underpinnings of a thrilling debut novel by author Lauren Bach. -- Romantic Times, November 2001

EDITORIAL REVIEW: FBI Special Agent Adam Duval is deep undercover with one mission: gain the trust of his cellmate, Lyle McEdwin, one of the notorious McEdwin family, by staging a prison break with him. Lyle promises they can hide out with his family in their secluded bunker, and that's just the opportunity Adam's been looking for - until it all goes wrong. Lyle is injured in a shootout with an off-duty cop, and Adam has no choice but to kidnap Dr. Renata Curtis from her clinic in order to keep Lyle alive.