Roman Fitzpatrick: Cool play-by-the-rules ex-cop on the outside, but scratch the surface…a hot-blooded man, ready and able to do whatever needs to be done.
Summer Love: What-you-see-is-what-you-get photographer and flighty gossip columnist. She has a “fan” who'd like to see her out of the picture.
Assignment: - Guard a woman who doesn't want guarding. - Overcome prejudice against flighty gossip columnists. - Pretend Summer Love isn't the sexiest, most desirable woman on the face of the earth.
Patricia Burford Ryan (born August 9, 1954 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States) is an American writer of romance novels as Patricia Ryan, mystery novels as P.B. Ryan and erotica novels as Louisa Burton. She is the twin sister of the romance writer Pamela Burford.
She won a Golden Heart award in 1994 in the category "short contemporary series" and a Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award. Her book Silken Threads also won a RITA, the top award of the Romance Writers of America, for "Best Long Historical Romance" of 2000.