Why does the past always come back to haunt you?It was hard work to get past being dumped by the only woman I'd ever loved but I'd done it. All that went out the window when she came to me asking for help. Now everything is on the line - personally and professionally - and I can't afford to screw this up. I didn't want to go to Gary for help, but I knew he was the only man I could count on. He was the only man I could ever count on, and that's why I left him all those years ago. Can we make it through this threat without me telling my secret and ruining everything? *** Gary, the fifth book in Kate Stone's Starke Private Security series, is an instalove romance with an alpha male who will do anything to protect his woman...and make her his. Of course these two have a happy ending, with no cheating and no cliffhanger. Books in the Starke Private Security series can be read in any order.