Anne Stuart

In the wake of a failed love affair, brainy beauty Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo. She's expecting to cry on her sister's shoulder, then spend a couple of months blowing off steam in Japan. Instead, she's snatched away on the back of a motorcycle, narrowly missing an execution attempt meant for her sister and brother–in–law.

Her rescuer is agent Reno. They'd met once before and the attraction was odd–tattooed Yakuza punk meets leggy California egghead. Now Reno and Jilly are pawns in a deadly tangle of assassination attempts, kidnappings and prisoner swaps that could put their steamy partnership on ice.