Terror and Temptation — Vella Day

Trust or run? The wrong decision will be deadly. After losing three loved ones, Detective Dominic Rossi is an expert at keeping his distance from all things female-that is until he meets Tessa Redman, a woman who seems mighty troubled. She's definitely hiding something from him, but that only brings out his need to protect even more. When a hot looking detective begins snooping around Tessa's bar, she panics, believing he's there on behalf of her ex-husband-a cop on the take who she turned in-a man who swore he'd kill her. But Dom's random tenderness awakens something deep inside her, and while he doesn't seem anything like her ex, the guy is a cop-and a rich one at that. Only after several of her patrons are murdered and her father is killed is she forced to decide: trust Dominic or run for her life?