A month wasn't that long. Was it? Amy Preston needed to get away. On an impulse, she took her share of funds from the honeymoon that would never be and put it into an Australian getaway. Alone. It was time for a long-overdue look at her life. But a handsome stranger on the plane and a glitch with her accommodations meant her plan to examine what she wanted got a lot more complicated.

Rest. And the freedom to do whatever he wanted. That was Army pilot Ezra Chastain's plan for the next month-besides cuddling his newborn niece. He hadn't taken a decent vacation in years. But what better time when your sister just had her first baby-and she lives in Australia? Excited, he boards his plane only to come face-to-face with a woman who tilts his world on its axis and throws his vacation plans out the window.

But one frantic phone call from his sister two days into his trip has him-and Amy-in a small plane, heading to her side. Except they never make it, crashing in the Outback, miles from anywhere. Now, facing the unknown and a wilderness intent on killing them, they discover a deeper connection and the promise of a future together. But first they have to make it out alive.