District Attorney "AJ" Jacobs was finally closing in on the ruthless criminal she'd been tracking. But she couldn't take him down without help-from the last man in the world she wanted in her life....Nobody knew Chicago's dark side like crime reporter Dare McKay. Nobody knew how to haunt a woman's fevered dreams-or break her fragile heart-like him, either....And this man was AJ's unwelcome protector as she worked to solve the most dangerous case of her career. But he was the real danger-because she had never stopped loving him.