Romancing Jack
C.C. Soltry

Jack swears to heaven and all who listen that little Sarah Carrington is bound to be the death of him; twisting his gut into a hot knot of need and grinding his sanity to dust under the heel of her delicate kidskin boots. Convinced he’s doing what’s best for Sarah—and guarding an awful secret—Jack resists her persistent charms, barricading his heart from her battalion of feminine wiles until the night Sarah is viciously attacked. One look at her terrified, tear streaked face and Jack knows his heart has little chance of holding out for much longer. Only one thing stops him from falling into the blissful blue mist of love; a truth so horrible, so horrendous, so . . . humiliating, that Jack will go to the ends of the earth to keep it hidden, even if it means living a life of privately shameful isolation and rejecting the only love he’s ever known.