After Noel Falcon professes his love to the one girl who truly holds his heart in the palm of her hand, he decides to try his damnedest to keep Lane Vance in his life forever this time. There's no way he'll let her slip through his fingers again without a fight.

The instant they are together Noel begins to plot a way to ask his headstrong ladylove to be his wife, but every attempt to pop the question is foiled by a string of mishaps that prevents him from getting the job done before he goes back on tour with Black Falcon.

Distance is a bigger challenge than Noel expects, and the one-eyed beast of jealousy raises its ugly head when Lane takes a job working on an ad campaign for Embrace the Darkness. With Striker—a man who's made his interest in Lane clear—lurking around her constantly, Noel wants to claim Lane now more than ever.

Allen Steele