FROM THE PUBLISHER

As Christmastime settled quietly over the countryside, government agent "Crash" Hawken was faced with a deadly conspiracy. And he had only one person to turn to -the caring, passionate Nell Burns. For though Crash had long ago accepted the fact that there was no place in his dangerous world for the simple pleasures of home and family, Nell had been the only woman who had ever tempted him to dream of another kind of life..