There is no love lost between them . until they’re about to shed their lives.

Twelve years ago, Levi McCoy uncovered the girl he cherished betrayed him. He utilized the pain to become chilly and calculating-the perfect Black Ops soldier.

When the 707 is assigned to extract a journalist embedded in a deadly terrorist cell, Levi can’t believe the face looking back at him through the SITREP file. He’s rescuing the same woman who shredded his spirit. Worse, she’s no longer the naïve teenager she pretended about Finally Free to become. She’s something far more dangerous.

Blake Porter’s heartrate spikes when she recognizes the tone of voice behind her rescuer’s dark mask. Levi, the high school love who abandoned their perfect romantic relationship without a word of description. It’s all she can usually do not to blow her cover and disclose the real reason she’s in Yemen.

Amid bombs, blood, and a flood of recollections, Levi and Blake face away inside a showdown of wills-Levi battling to resist the girl he’s never ended loving, and Blake losing her grip about the necessity to beg Levi to hear the truth. All of the truth-because actually if they escape this alive, their hearts may not survive intact.

Contains mature themes.