In from the Cold — Kathleen Creighton

MR. JULY
The man: Niall Rankin, world-weary veteran of the secret war for freedom.
The woman: Ann Severn, a widow struggling to make a life for herself and her troubled daughter.
The place: Pinetree, California, a sun-baked cluster of houses on a lonely desert highway.

A lifetime spent in a shadowy world of treachery and betrayal had left intelligence agent Niall Rankin searching for something he had long since stopped believing in. A chance encounter brought him into Ann Severn's life -- and into her arms -- and showed him the love and trust he had never thought to find. But this lovely, fragile woman deserved so much more than he could offer her, so much more than the burned-out shell he had become...