Walk Through the Fire

Annie had learned long ago that she could get through just about anything life threw her way. She can get through being forced from the home she's lived in since she was a child.

She has one more chance to convince the mayor to knock down some other neighborhood for his shopping malls and banksor she and the three little boys she's in the process of adopting are going to end up homeless.

For shy Annie, the thought of confronting one of the wealthiest men in Finley Creekone of the handsome, charismatic, larger-than-life Barrattshas her shaking and ready to flee. If the fight weren't so important, Annie would turn and run, avoiding the fire altogether. But Annie can't run this time. She's running out of options. She just has to get through this one meetingand convince Mayor Turner Barratt to listen to her.

Somehow.

Turner Barratt takes one look at Annie Gaines, his last appointment of the day, and can't look away. Innocent,...