Dream Shard — Mary Wine

Body heat brought them together. Cold reality could tear them apart.

After surviving a brutal emergency-room shooting, nightmares have worn Kalin Smith down. Desperate, she retreats to her grandfather's cabin and prays her Miwok heritage will bring her peace. In a mountain pool's healing waters, she finds an unconscious, hypothermic man floating from upriver. When he comes to, it turns out he's armed, dangerous…and she can feel him sifting through her thoughts.

Devon Ross can't remember who he is, but he knows for sure he's psychic and he's being hunted. When men show up to take him and kill Kalin, instinct -- and survival training -- kick in. He takes her on the run, led only by a distant, flickering memory of a destination. Danger turns up the heat between them, but as Devon's memories gradually return, he remembers why he can never love again. He is an operative for an elite Army Ranger unit and his life is too dangerous. Particularly now that unscrupulous people know who he is.

Warning: Contains an empathic Army Ranger with killer instincts and well-trained hands, and a Native American nurse who knows just what to do with all his body parts.