Although biologist Lou Thornton had prepared herself for the high temperatures of the Sahara Desert, the heat from her guide is about to melt her. Master tracker Quinn Caldwell is a man of few words. But it doesn’t take words for Lou to know that something feral burns beneath his powerful and controlled exterior. As they track an endangered species, Lou finds that Quinn has the scent of more than just one type of prey when he decides he must have her.

In the world of Isabelle de Grey, eyesight isn’t the only way to see. Her psychic ability gives her a second type of vision. When she touches objects and people, she looks into their past. But her gift is equal parts curse. She has yet to find the lover who can accept the brutal truth of what she sees. Isolated and rejected, she is ready to leave Los Angeles and abandon her career when she meets FBI profiler Gavin “Mac” MacMillan. Thrown together when the daughter of a mutual friend is abducted, Isabelle discovers that Mac could be the man who won’t push her away. Despite his controlled exterior, she senses a fevered passion in him that boils just below the surface. But as she and Mac give in to their desires and race to save a young girl, Isabelle must learn yet again that every touch has its price.