They were as different as satin and steel --- the spoiled British heiress and the brash American cowboy who'd been hired to protect her. And there was no love lost between them. He was well acquainted with women's deceits, and expected little more than lies from his lovely charge. His arrogance infuriated her and she fought him at every turn, even when her willfulness led to danger greater than either imagined. Yet there was a seductive magic between Angelica Higgins and Nick Durango that neither could resist. From London and Paris to Venice and Cairo, their passion burned with a fierce heat that would leave them forever branded by its fire!