In Patricia Potter's high-octane romantic thriller, a young woman discovers she is not only the daughter of a notorious crime boss but a person of interest to a steely FBI agent Clutching her babies, a mother flees through the streets of Boston, desperate to escape the monster she married. Thirty-four years later, two men enter Samantha Carroll's Colorado art gallery, and her safe, secure world explodes. Now Sam is en route back to Boston to meet her twin brother, Nick, and Paul Merritta, the crime boss whose blood runs through her veins. Merritta is dying, and he wants to clear up some unfinished business with his daughter. Nathan McLean won't rest until he brings down Merritta and his entire family. For the determined FBI agent, it's also personal-payback for what Merritta did to his own loved ones. But there's a wild card in the stacked deck-Samantha Carroll. Now Sam's on the FBI's radar, and she's falling for the one man who could destroy her newfound family. But Nathan isn't the only danger. There's someone else out there too-someone who wants her dead.