She thought of him as her father's friend.

Matthew Wilder had been a brilliant medical researcher who had suddenly disappeared from Joanna's life. Her memory of him was vague.When they finally met again on a remote Florida key, he bore no resemblance to the uncle of her imagination.

The mutual desire that flared between them overshadowed the reason for their meeting. But the secret that had driven him into solitude was what, in the end, would keep them apart.