Legacy — Shirley Hailstock

Erika St. James long ago stopped believing in miracles. The she learns she is about to inherit a fortune--provided she comply with the unusual terms of the will. For one year, she must manage an old friend's estate in cooperation with her benefactor's grandson. And something more: she's got to live with him.

Most men would jump at the chance to get rich and spend a year with a woman who looks like Erika St. James. But Michael Lawrence is a man on the run...from his own demons. A trial lawyer haunted by a murderer he once defended, he lives a lonely, solitary life. But in Erika he finds a warmth and tenderness that gives him new hope.

He returns to Philadelphia with her; where desire, potent and unquenchable, turns his days and nights into a different kind of torment. Then the dangerous past catches up with him. Now the man who lost his faith will fight with his last breath for the woman who has made him believe in himself again--and the love that could prove his sweetest salvation....