Strangers

NOT SINCE BRIEF ENCOUNTER HAS A ROMANCE TOUCHED THE HEART SO DEEPLY...

There was no warning. One moment, Annie was in a department store bustling with Christmas shoppers. Suddenly, there was the ferocious blast of a terrorist bomb---and the sound of her own screams. Then a stranger's quiet, comforting voice broke through the darkness...and his hand reached out to touch, to hold her own.

Trapped in the rubble, through the long, harrowing hours, they shared their most intimate secrets. Annie, the devoted housewife and mother, whose dreams and desires had been locked within her for so long. And Steve, the fast-track ad man, whose big deals and beautiful women had shielded him from his own crushing loneliness.

And in the wake of the blast, they discovered a passion as sudden and urgent as the sheer joy of being alive...as dangerous as the bomb that had shattered their safe, conventional worlds. Now, as lovers, they share the miracle of a second chance...and a heartrending search for happiness that has only just begun....