Can I keep the gorgeous, gun-shy single mother safe--and prove I'm the man for her? I'm Tanner Kirk--Certified firearms instructor and mixed martial arts enthusiast. When I filed for divorce at the end of an empty marriage, all I wanted was a vacation in paradise, not another woman in my life. But how can I possibly say no to Amanda Lund, a young single mom desperate to learn self-defense? Or refuse the banked desire on the guarded beauty's face? I can't. So I seduce Mandy until we're burning up the sheets ... and soon find my heart entangled with her bruised and battered one. But when a nemesis from her past tries to destroy our future by unearthing my secret, will she understand and forgive me--or give up on us forever?