Former Air Force pilot-turned-undercover agent Sloan Hamilton, code name Dodge, jumps at the chance to get back into a flight suit. His assignment - escort the head of the team conducting compliance checks in accordance with the US/USSR START treaty.

Dodge finds Major Larissa Petrovna's icy beauty fascinating but entirely resistible. At first. Then a killer targets her, a potential nuclear disaster looms, and the mutual antipathy between Dodge and Lara melts in a blaze of passion that neither of them anticipated or wanted.