To Hawk O Toole， she was a pawn in a desperate gamble to help his people. To Miranda Price， he was a stranger who d done the unthinkable: kidnapped her andher young son off a train full of sight-seeing vacationers. Now， held hostage on a distant reservation for reasons she cannot at first fathom， Miranda finds herself battling a captor who is by turns harsh and tender， mysteriously aloof and dangerously seductive.Hawk had assumed that Miranda Price， the beautiful ex-wife of Representative Price， would be as selfish and immoral as the tabloids suggested. Instead， sheseems genuinely afraid for her son s life--and willing to risk her own to keep him safe. But committed to a fight he didn t start， Hawk knows he can t afford to feel anything but contempt for his prisoner. To force the government to reopen the Lone Puma Mine， he must keep Miranda at arm s length， must remember that she is his enemy--even when she ignites his deepest desires.Slowly， Miranda begins to learn what drives this brooding， solitary man， to discover the truth about his tragic past. But it will take a shocking revelation to finally force her to face her own past and the woman she s become， and to ask herself: Is it freedom she really wants...or the chance to stay with Hawk forever?Sizzling entertainment from the first tantalizing scene to the last， Hawk O Toole s Hostage is one of Sandra Brown s classic romances available inhardcover for the first time.