Undercover cop Cole Taylor had his hands full sustaining a secret identity as he worked to expose a Kansas City crime boss — while living under the enemy’s roof! The last thing he needed was a snooty intellectual type interfering in his investigation, asking suspicious questions and snooping where she shouldn’t. Besides, with all that fiery red hair and miles of silky skin, Victoria Westin didn’t look like any professor he knew...

She had the touch-me-not beauty of an aristocrat and fit right in with their upper-crust hosts. But the streetwise Taylor from working-class roots would have to persuade Miss High-and-Mighty to cooperate with his plan to save his life — and now hers, too. And if he couldn’t gain her cooperation by his usual methods, he’d blackmail her with bedroom fantasies to ‘maintain cover.’