ONCE BURNED… When polished Seattle professional Lauren Edwards landed at a wilderness cabin to temporarily caretake her widowed brother’s children, she was flying blind, relying on untried instincts to guide her. Until help arrived in the unlikely form of brazen bush pilot Zach McKendrick…whose granite shoulders and mesmerizing maleness marked him a force of nature Lauren hadn’t bargained for. No woman alive could resist Zach’s tenderness with the motherless tykes—or the haunting hunger in his quicksilver eyes. Zach evoked longings Lauren had all but abandoned—for marriage, for motherhood. But would this wounded lone wolf ever seek the warmth of hearth and home—or safely settle for tending another man’s children?