They took her from all she knew over another's unpaid sins, delivering Cassidy giftwrapped to crime boss Eddie O'Neal. She's his now to punish or play with—a butterfly trapped in iron claws. As Boston fades behind Cassidy's window, she's at the mercy of O'Neal's handsome but menacing driver, Jimmy. Their destination surely implies her demise, remote and friendless. But surrounded by masculine danger, she discovers an unexpected spark—Jimmy's brooding surface concealing wounds that fuel his own captive plight. Two tortured strangers recognizing mirrors in moving darkness...yet O'Neal's shadow grants no possibility of escape. Or does it? Each mile deepens their connection until Cassidy yearns to rewrite fate with Jimmy as her accomplice. But trusting again, let alone a virtual stranger, may require courage her battered spirit no longer owns. And Jimmy seems more prison guard than possible rescuer, for all his buried pain so akin to her own. Yet she knows better cages than this...and won't surrender freedom's last ember without igniting this lonely road with defiant flame first.