He'd always been an outsider. And Grant McClureliked it that way. Stepson to the Fortunes, he'd made hisown destiny without the family's riches—or their love. Butnow the rugged loner had found someone who needed him.Meredith Brady's life was on the line, and Grant's ranch washer only refuge. But she found herself in even greater dangerwhen she fell for a man whose gruff exterior could notconceal a passion too long denied....