Writer Tracy Kent's rejection intrigued Senator Cole Damon almost as much as the woman herself. After all, the two fo them got along professionally like a house on fire...and, as Washington's most eligible bachelor he was more used to females running after him than away from him. Cole didn't know that Tracy had suffered a betrayal so unthinkable it had shattered her faith in relationships altogether. And, by the time he did find out, he was committed to loving Tracy for always - no matter what it cost him.