This lazy little town in the Louisiana bayou country was never going to be the same-at least, not if local bad boy Johnny Bernard had anything to do with it. He''d come back to turn up the heat on some of the town''s most upstanding citizens-the ones who''d sent him to prison for a crime he hadn''t committed…. But he hadn''t counted on Nicole Chapman-and another kind of heat altogether. The beautiful blonde with the shadowed past awoke a desire that flashed through him like summer lightning. But could their passion survive the secrets of the past-secrets that could set this town on fire…?