He was there to take a life. She just happened to be in the way.

Eleanor Wilson never expected to come home to a sniper set up at her window. But when she interrupts a hit, the assassin makes an unthinkable choice--he lets her live.

James "Mac" Mackenzie kills the worst of the worst. No hesitation. No witnesses. But Eleanor changes something in him--and soon he's watching her, protecting her... craving her.

As danger closes in, Eleanor is forced into Mac's violent world. And the deeper she falls, the harder it is for them to deny the sizzling attraction between them.

But in the shadows, love is the most dangerous thing of all.