Book 2 of the tars of Mithra.

Girl on the run.It should have been a piece of cake. All he had to do was pick up some pretty little runaway. But cynical bounty hunter Jack Dakota soon discovered there was nothing easy about spitfire MJ O’Leary—or about this case. Someone had set them both up. Now they were handcuffed together and hiding from hired killers.And MJ wasn’t talking—not even when Jack found a gigantic blue diamond hidden in her bag. Everything told Jack this alluring vixen couldn’t be trusted… everything, that is, except his captive heart.

Nora Roberts (b. Eleanor Marie Robertson, October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA), is a bestselling American author of more than 165 romance novels, and she writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series. She also has written under the pseudonym Jill March, and by error some of her works were published in the UK as Sarah Hardesty.

Nora Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. As of 2006, her novels had spent a combined 660 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, including 100 weeks in the number-one spot. Over 280 million copies of her books are in print, including 12 million copies sold in 2005 alone. Her novels have been published in 35 countries.