The Turquoise Heart — Ellen James

A man of mystery in a land of mystery!

Annie Brooke had never met anyone like Derrek F. Richards. With his forthright ways, his easygoing charm, she found him as unfamiliar and exciting as the New Mexico landscape. Annie had come to Santa Fe to restore a damaged painting for Derrek. She couldn't help wondering who had defaced the portrait and why. She soon learned that this mystery reached deep below the surface of Derrek's life. Just as he learned that Annie's own surface, so cool and controlled, hid unexpected depths of warmth, of passion. And because he could release those feelings, she feared him as much as she loved him.

Hero: Derrek F. Richards
Heroine: Annie Brooke