About the book: year / Stray bullets from a neighboring hunting club had already hit her house before, but when one of them went through the wall, Alaina hid in the barn . And she almost had a heart attack when she realized that she would have to share her “safe haven” with a wounded panther. Ralphie, however, is not just an ordinary 100-pound big cat. He's incredibly smart, and when she brings him into her home, he turns out to be frighteningly gentle, too. To keep hunters out of her land, Alaina hires a man to build a fence. But Raphael Doucette, the dangerously attractive stranger she hired, seems to have some morbid interest in what's going on at the club and his own agenda..