Only the desert would know…Dr. Malcolm Reid goes out on his seismology expeditions alone, and he likes it thatway. The fewer warm bodies he’s responsible for bringing home alive, the better.When the mentorship of a geology grad student is thrust upon him just as he’s leavingfor Mexico’s Baja peninsula, he resigns himself to eight weeks of keeping her safe—fromATV-riding cattle rustlers, from a weather-worn mountain lion roaming the hills, and mostof all from her accident-prone self.Jenna Polaski has needed the canyon-sized chip on her shoulder to get ahead in theold boys’ education hierarchy. Now, needing samples to finish her thesis, she has no choicebut to serve as the professor’s pack mule. And wonder if his limp is connected to rumorssurrounding a long-ago incident that killed one of her predecessors.Malcolm keeps a sharp eye out as they penetrate deep into the wilderness. But the onedanger he forgets to watch for is the one that captures them both—an undeniable attractionthat shatters all the rules.Warning: Contains a gruff college professor with a cloudy past, and a determined gradstudent who isn’t afraid to get her hands—or the rest of her body—a little dirty. Some partsmay leave you sweaty—keep a bandana handy.

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