Bryan had been her late husband's close friend, a decent man with a body that called to her lonely one. Yet much as she craved him, Lara was afraid of the male beast just beneath the surface—or maybe it was herself she feared. Product of a conservative upbringing and the wife of a man who'd had little need for sex, she'd struggled to live within the confining walls of her world.

Now a widow with a young woman's desperate hunger, she and Bryan are together with desire sparking between them. But he is a sexy, experienced male while she has nothing to give him except her all-but-virginal body.

But as he peeled off her clothes and drew her against him, anticipation—hope — grew that he might offer more than she knew how to give in a single afternoon.