Reya Daines has dedicated her life to the conservation of jaguars. With the only bed-and-breakfast at the entrance to Cockscomb Jaguar Sanctuary, she can keep an eye on poachers and still indulge her guests in her first love—scuba diving. But something unusual is happening on the reserve and the big cats are restless. Something has invaded their habitat. And that something wants Reya.

Aaron James is a hard nut to crack. A shrewd businessman and always determined to see to his own affairs, he finds he can't quite take care of things himself after his plane goes down in the jungles of Belize. The woman who rescues him is a loner just like him. But he finds he doesn't want her to be a loner, unless she's alone with him. When he learns she's in danger from the same menace she's saved him from twice, what's a determined man to do with an equally stubborn woman?