“You said you’re not scared. Prove it.”

When Jack Radcliffe dares Belle Fortune to kiss him at a Valentine’s Ball, he thinks he’s just having fun. She’s a pampered Southern princess newly moved to Texas, and she’s interested in someone else. In other words, she’s “safe.” From the moment their lips touch, however, the former military man is in trouble. The woman he shouldn’t want challenges him to confront his painful past—and face his future head-on…