Niklaus Volkov is a man of very particular skills—skills he offers to his handler in the Den. When a new job brings him back to the city he hates, he doesn't expect anything to come of it—especially not her.

Reagan O'Callahan wants only to stay out of trouble and keep her tavern up and running, but when that's threatened by local loan sharks, the last person she expects to help get her out from under them is the man who disappeared out of her life years ago and took her heart along with him.

While she wants nothing to do with him anymore, he refuses to take no for an answer.

Vengeance and death might have been al he knew, that all changes when he finds a new reason to live.

When he finds her ...