Alba Morel embarked on a career many would consider dangerous, even deadly. Her sisters have found love and happy-ever-after, but Alba knows that will never be for her. She'd already met the man of her dreams more than three years ago, and he left her without a backward glance.

Now she's on the run, the unwitting scapegoat for an unscrupulous traitor. The last thing she expects is to be kidnapped by Patrick Jamieson, the man she never stopped loving and who, it turns out, isn't simply the writer of fiction he portrayed himself to be.

Patrick is devastated to discover the woman he fell in love with is an assassin. Patrick devises a plan to uncover all Alba's secrets. But things just aren't adding up, and one thing defies logic: If this is the woman who murdered his best friend, how can he still be in love with her?