Raised inside the secret society of a hidden cult, Ace Myers has dedicated herself to exposing the crimes of her enemies...an endeavor she expects will cost her her life. Before her time runs out, there's a wrong she must set right...a mission that causes her to cross paths with Valentino Parker and his team of counterterrorist operatives.

Gorgeous, seductive, and way out of her reach, Val shows her another side of life, one of light and hope and possibilities, that wakes her heart and makes her dream of things that can never be—not in her world, not in her lifetime.

Val Parker is pulling apart the mysteries woven around him, the puppet strings that prescribe his choices, which are slowly choking him. Nothing in his life was truly as he believed it, and his discoveries may cost him everything he holds dear—his family, his team, and Ace Myers...the one woman he wants to keep forever.