Current Affairs — Carol Thurston

He was the last man Mari expected to see on the European flight. Dr. Charles Merrill, whom she had once interviewed--and never forgotten. He offered her comfort and more as she rushed to meet her ailing mother overseas. It was too much even for Mari McNichols: the woman who had everything but wasn't sure she deserved it, the star TV reporter who put her private life on hold as she fought for every inch of her career.
Suddenly Mari was a woman under siege, consumed by guilt over her conflicting feelings for a mother who demanded too much, challenged to maintain her integrity in a cutthroat profession where the game was ratings--at any cost. And threatened as never before by the stranger at her side who offered her passion she'd never known, and a love she dared not accept...