His Ultimate Temptation — Susan Crosby

BEN a.k.a. THE PROTECTOR

He'd only loved one woman in his life, but his fierce overprotectiveness hadn't meshed well with her strong independent streak. So they'd parted, as "just" friends. And now their life together was but a distant memory.

Or was it? On Christmas Eve, Bend and Leslie O'Keefe were stranded in a secluded mountain cabin with their willful daughter, who more that noticed their lightning attraction. Then they all began to hope for...the impossible. Powerfully drawn to the fragile, haunted look in his beloved's eyes, this lone wolf's primitive desire to protect-and to succumb to his ultimate temptation-became nearly impossible to resist...