Navy SEAL Zack Pritchard is home on leave determined to avoid his brother's girlfriend, Chloe La Ruse, the object of some pretty erotic fantasies. If he can just avoid her, then walk his sister down the aisle everything will be great or so he thinks.

Unbeknownst to him, his brother, Gordy's life is in the toilet. He's dropped out of college, is broke and frustrated. All he wants to do is drive for NASCAR, but in the meantime he's picked up a gig that promises quick money and is only a little illegal.

Chloe La Ruse's life involves around graduate school. Every so often she raises her nose out of a book to notice that her boyfriend hasn't been around in months, his family hates her, her thesis is incomplete and men only ask her out for one reason. She teaches sex education. She's counting the days until she can leave.

Many love triangles involving thwarted ambitions, fraternal competition, drugs and racecars work out well. Unfortunately this one has some problems.

Two men. One has goodness, the other only the appearance of it. Like flip sides of a coin, one represents every girl’s dream, handsome and rich. While the other lives an isolated existence, scarred and damaged from a life lived in the trenches. Both are hunters. Both are hunted. And both want the same woman.

Czigany “Cezi” Romney is perfectly happy. Yes, she’d have liked to have graduated high school, perhaps even attended college and become a CSI rather than working for her father and Uncle as an asthmatic sidekick. But leaving Armadillo Creek would be impossible. A gypsy without family would be like a ship without a rudder - directionless, unable to function. Her family loves her, but struggle to contain their disapproval of her unorthodox behavior and worst of all, she’s still single, childless and her chances of marriage are waning quickly. Eighteen is practically over the hill. At twenty-six many doubt anyone would want her.

At thirty-four, Stillwater is a seasoned federal agent who has come up through the military and special ops. His scarred face reflects the life of man dedicated to protecting his country. Currently FBPA Agent John Stillwater and his team suspect they are dealing with a nationwide white slavery ring, but lack evidence to prove it. A murder in a nowhere town in Texas leads John to investigate with his team, who are as close as any family, but still he’s careful not pry into their lives outside of work. John is not a monk. He likes women, but chooses those who understand his rules: don’t bother settling in, you’ll be gone by the morning. But the missing women in his current case wear on his soul. His ability to initiate even a casual relationship is inhibited by how aware he has become of the dangers woman face with every guy they meet.

Cain McIntosh’s career is making him rich. In his chauffeur-driven limo, his tailored suits, his ten thousand dollar watch and his private jet, Cain visits different towns each week and finds the girl of his dreams. Or so he says as he convinces her to come home with him and meet his family. Unfortunately, the girl who agrees to go, knowing she will be the envy of her friends, is never heard from again. His perfect operation grinds to a halt by a short gypsy woman who deflates his ego and a large Fed agent’s relentless pursuit.

Hard driving caterer Dori Connors finds herself in trouble when she allows Detective Matthews and his partner to work undercover at a party. When the host is arrested for a series of thefts, Dori's ex-husband, now the Assistant Commissioner of Police is intent upon seeing Dori included in the arrests.

Justice is a slippery slope. Grant Matthews suspects Dori is being railroaded by her ex. He works to uncover the truth. While he is attracted to the woman, he can't spare the time away from his sick daughter.

Grant may be drool-worthy, but he's a cop. Dori's experiences with the long arm of the law have left her bruised and battered.

As usual, fate has the last laugh.

Independent and successful, Lily Carmichael co-owns a booming catering business. Her dominating career allows no time for any outside involvement. No man. No dog. No life. With a hectic daily schedule, she participates in a social whirl of parties and events, but only from the sidelines.

Even before she was widowed, Lily embraced the type A work mode; her husband’s passion was food –- not his wife. To the world she presents herself as a hardworking career woman, but late at night her sub-conscience dreams of a nameless, faceless stranger whose dedication and singular devotion to her pleasure holds her in his thrall. Night after night, he pursues her, igniting the fire yet never fulfilling the promise. Lily becomes a woman haunted by her own fantasy life.

In her own unerring way, she stumbles across the perfect solution –- a real life fantasy man, who wants no entanglements, but is willing to bring her dream to an exciting climax. No more cliffhanger endings.

The perfect man comes to her in the form of forty-six year old Marshall Caudill, a man who’s played the relationship wheel his entire life. He professes no interest in marriage or family because his true love is the Oceanic Institute that bears his name. Women may be delightful and charming, but they are strictly recreational.

However, the women in his life aren't always quick to catch on. His sort-of ex "girlfriend", Muffy, has designs on Marshall that involve the words ‘until-death-do-them-part’. Marshall has no idea how literal Muffy can be, particularly since he believes they've broken up.