Gun-slinging pilot Jacqueline Renton would risk her life without batting an eye, but never her heart. Her past had taught her that love was a game women always lost, and she refused to play. Then Dr. Finn Simonson hired her to fly him on a mercy mission, and soon his warm compassion--his heated passions--made her question the cold comfort of her romantic theory.

Downed in a war-torn jungle, she and Finn were forced to rely on each other for survival. The days were hellish, but the nights... At night they lay side by side in the steaming darkness, and she began aching for Finn's embrace, yearning to take the ultimate gamble on love's fickle whims.