Special Investigations Agency. She can't release the past. But the past is about to take hold of her... SIA scientist Mina Carling shies from contact with Scottish SIA soldier Lucas Sloan. After all, the gorgeous, tough-talking agent has a reputation for a voracious, almost...animal sexual appetite. He's arrogant, and she doesn't like him. He wants nothing to do with a permanent relationship. Yet one relationship keeps finding him... Lucas tracks evil entities in the dark places of the world and never seeks more than physical satisfaction with women. Yet something within Mina calls to his deepest male instincts to protect, even though he doesn't really like her. Sometimes there are human urges that are just so...animal. When Mina and Lucas are thrown together at a conference, all the basic instincts they've tried to ignore find a way to escape. All the feelings they thought were dislike melt together, in one hot, unbelievably passionate discovery.