With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon<U+2019>s final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber<U+2014>the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months. Brandon and Catherine Ling, Rachel<U+2019>s longtime ally and fierce protector, are determined to keep Rachel out of danger, but she knows that it<U+2019>s impossible to stay hidden when Max Huber wants you dead. As Rachel and Brandon race against the clock to bring Huber down before he can orchestrate a disaster that will lay waste to half the country, they also fight a growing attraction to each other <U+2013> an attraction that could prove just as dangerous as Huber himself.