P.I. Craig Branson has come to New Orleans laser-focused on vengeance for the long-ago murder of his twin brother Sam--collateral damage in a mob hit. But when he meets the fiance of the man responsible, everything changes. Touching Stephanie Swift is disorienting, exhilarating, and highly erotic. They can read each other's thoughts the way he could with his brother, and he knows her father forced her into an engagement she fears and detests. But this mind-to-mind joining is different from what he had with Sam. Now there's an overlay of overwhelming sexual need pulling him and Stephanie together. The connection wraps them in a web of danger-from Stephanie's jealous fiance, and from the man who will stop at nothing to unravel the secrets of their shared past. They must join together to save themselves, yet any misstep in their quest for intimacy could end them both.