Vera Cowie

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Photographs by Nan Goldin and David Armstrong.

Beckett Jamieson discovers he is adopted when a lawyer hands him a letter from his mother on his twenty-first birthday. His real name is Robert Bullen, but the Bullen family is involved in criminal activity of the worst kind. He decides to bring them down but ends up badly beaten and temporarily blinded. A Sanctuary agent takes him to a safe house to heal. Doctor Kayden Summers, Sanctuary operative, is not happy about being stuck in the middle of nowhere with an unconscious man. When Beckett wakes, the situation goes from bad to worse. Beckett does not trust him, is as determined as ever to find the evidence his mother hid, and on top of all that, Kayden finds himself attracted to the determined young man. Can they overcome their issues and eliminate the threat from the Bullen brothers?

Down-on-her-luck Mikki Donovan prayed that diamonds were indeed a girl's best friend: a letter postmarked fifty years ago had landed in her mailbox, with clues leading to a fortune in sparkling gems! Mikki raced to Texas, but the first thing to gleam at her was the dangerous glint in sexy stranger Shawn Gallagher's green eyes... Shawn was an expert at deciphering clues...and the vulnerable look on a lovely face. Someone had to protect this feisty, fast-talking blonde from jewel thieves - why not him? If only adorably arousing Mikki would stop suspecting him long enough to believe that a man, not money, was a girl's best bet...