Leah Spenser owns a decrepit car, a budget that won’t stretch and the moxie to make a decent life. She lives in the present until one sun-drenched day, a past she has outrun imperils her future and threatens all she holds dear. When her boss announces that someone is embezzling company funds, history begins to repeat itself. Detective Leo Garvey has her in his sights as the number one suspect and more. Leah knows she must be careful, that nothing good could come from his attraction. Leo doesn’t see it her way. Guilty or innocent, she is the woman he wants in his heart, in his life and in his bed. But convincing Leah the past can only be escaped by embracing something better seems to fall on deaf ears.