In this classic love story from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Tami Hoag, fire meets ice when a Yankee heartthrob falls for a resistant proper Southern belle determined to guard her heart.<br><b><br></b>Katie Quaid could never refuse a dare. It was the quality that had once made her a world-class equestrian. And it was the reason she&#8217;d been elected to introduce herself to Briarwood&#8217;s intimidatingly gorgeous new resident. It took one week to make Nick Leone the focus of the Virginia town&#8217;s rumor mill. So far he was a CIA agent, a male model, a fugitive&#8212;maybe all three. <br><br>Whatever Nick was, Katie learned one thing right away: she liked him. And that made him the greatest danger she&#8217;d faced since the accident that had ended her riding career. In the five years since, she&#8217;d buried herself in her business of restoring historic homes, afraid to share her scars with any man&#8212;scars that had destroyed more than one dream. Nick had disappointments of his own, but after meeting Katie, he sensed that fate had a better plan all along. And soon he would pose her with the greatest dare of all&#8212;to love again.