Despite her evident success as a hardworking Toronto real estate agent, Lynette is an emotional cripple, haunted by a painful past. Her love life, by choice, is nonexistent. So when a new client, the devastatingly handsome Jack Ovits, sweeps into her life, she is unprepared for the sensual onslaught. Unprepared, also, for the determination of a man who seems to have made it his mission in life to break down the walls she has so carefully erected around her heart. But can she trust any man to get close to her again?Excerpt:Lyn finds she can no longer keep up the wall she has placed around her emotions. She pulls Jack’s face to hers and kisses him with every fiber of her being. God, how did I live without this? she wonders breathlessly.After long, electrified moments, Jack pulls away, his face surprised. “Babe, why now? What’s changed?”“Nothing. Everything.” Lyn pulls him into her apartment, kissing him all the while.Jack responds to her heat, his own body on fire. In moments they’re in her bedroom. Lyn has never been so turned on. The emotion is thrilling, yet terrifying …