One mission. Two traps. No way out without consequences.

Empathic agent Lilah Burns learned the hard way that trust is a luxury she can't afford—especially after her ex chose an international book thief over her. When Professor Drusilla St. Augustine assigns her a routine surveillance mission at a historic Florida lodge, Lilah expects to watch a simple trap catch book thieves.

She's dead wrong.

The mission is actually bait to expose a mole in their own organization—someone's been leaking classified intel, and Dru's elaborate setup is designed to flush them out. All Lilah and her partner Raven Darbyshire have to do is observe and report back. But when the stakes turn deadly and betrayal hits closer to home than expected, Lilah realizes the most dangerous part of the mission isn't the surveillance.

It's letting Raven matter enough to break down the walls she's spent years building around her heart.