Uncommon lives... Oceanographer Cecil Elizabeth Jordon, PhD, is not only cold on the outside, but also on the inside. Stunningly attractive, her perfectly-shaped swimmer's body makes men sizzle and she knows it. Tougher than nails and honed from the roughest parts of East LA, she slams against the norms and mores of conventional society. If she wants a man--she has him on her terms and then brushes him aside like so much lint...but Don Dixon would not be moved. Uncommon needs... Handsome, virile and mysterious, a lethal combination Donald Dixon operates in the shadows everywhere. Like thin air, he leads an invisible life. In his profession, he could not risk being with a high-profile woman...until he sees Cecil and knows he will risk everything...including his life...to be with her. Uncommon choices... Caught in the milieu of the dichotomies between their private and public personae, they make all the wrong choices for all of the right reasons. Risky business for them both with danger lurking too close for comfort.