title: Hold Back the Dawn
author: Duncan, Judith
description: ONE SECRET DARKENED THEIR DAWNING LOVE
  
  When Leslie Kairns met oil man Steve McRory at a business lunch, the air between them sizzled. She found it difficult to concentrate on selling either her skills as a geologist or her revolutionary theory on natural gas.  His blue eyes were so incredible.  When Steve offered her a job, Leslie was ecstatic-for more reasons than one. Their initial rapport soon blossomed... into a fierce and breathless love.
  
  But, like the leading edge of a storm, one thing threatened her blinding happiness. The truth of her past--her only lie--irrevocably betrayed his trust in her ....