Book excerpt: Dismissed & discarded: Can he deny the forgotten Corretti? Zack Scott wakes from nightmares to the echo of gunfire. So when he stirs from a trance and finds himself not in his fighter jet but at a party, pressed up against the soft, womanly figure of Lia Corretti, he quickly rages against her sweet pity. For years the forgotten Corretti has hidden her pain behind a façade. So Lia recognizes the shadows in Zack's eyes. But there's nothing familiar about the hot heat of Zack as he traps her to him. Can she lower her guard long enough to let him see all of her?