From Nora Roberts, the incomparable mistress of romantic suspense, come two dark, dazzling tales of passion and peril in the first installment of the classic NIGHT TALES series. It was Detective Boyd Fletcher's job to protect radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke. Even as she hid her vulnerability beneath a self-sufficient facade, she protested his intrusion and the attraction it ignited in her life. . . but anything could happen on the Night Shift. The night he saved Deborah O'Roarke from an attacker, Gage Guthrie rediscovered the sweet ache of longing. But the idealistic prosecutor abhorred his vigilante approach to crime fighting. So how could he reveal that he was also Nemesis, the phantom who lurked in the Night Shadow?