Former underwear model turned entrepreneur Clay Stryker has loved, tragically lost and vowed that hell never risk his heart again. After making his fortune, the youngest of the rugged Stryker brothers returns to Fools Gold, California, to put down roots on a ranch of his own. But hes frustrated to discover that even in his hometown, people see him only for his world-famous?assets.Firefighter Chantal Charlie Dixon grew up an ugly duckling beside her delicately beautiful mother, a feeling reinforced long ago by a man who left soul-deep scars. Now she has good friends, a solid job and the itch to start a familyyet she cant move toward the future while shes haunted by painful memories.Clay finds an unexpected ally, and unexpected temptation, in tomboyish Charlie, the only person who sees beyond his dazzling good looks to the real man beneath.
