Griffin Hargrove I was CIA elite. Until a terrorist attack stole my arm and most of my hearing. I don't know what my old boss, Austin Pritchard, is thinking, hiring a broken relic like me. But he trusts me, and that kind of loyalty is a balm to my shattered self-worth. Sloane is more beautiful than pictures can show, and bruised in ways that can't easily be seen. No one has told her I'm her bodyguard, but someone better clue her in soon, because she's spooked. And the longer I watch her, the more I need to protect her. Sloane Sanders None of my unspeakable past bleeds through the images plastered across magazines, cosmetics aisles, and the internet. But now, even as I land the biggest job of my career, that past crawls out of the muck. When you hide everything about who you are, it's tough to trust anyone. Until six feet of gorgeousness puts his hard-muscled body between me and a nightmare. A nightmare that's killed once. And if I don't find...

One mistake, and Ford lost the only woman he ever loved. Twenty years ago, Joey walked out of his life and into a nightmare. One that shattered her soul along with all hope of a normal life—the one she was supposed to have with Ford. After throwing himself into his career as a marine, Ford moved to Boston and, along with a blind, former Special Forces soldier, started Second Sight, one of the most elite investigative and security companies in the world. He thought he was happy. Until one phone call turns his world upside down. On a humanitarian aid mission with Doctors Without Borders, Joey's taken, stolen away and forced to witness a world where women are property. Her unique skills keep her worst nightmares from coming true, but with no possibility of escape and no one to look for her, she fears she'll soon disappear forever. Can Ford find her before she loses all hope? Or will this be his final mission?...

For more than twenty years, I lived by my Air Force code. Until I made a choice. Put my family first. Something a soldier is never allowed to do. Now I don't know who I am. Or where I belong. Getting lost in Mexico sounds like a good idea, but with only guilt and regret as my constant companions, I'll never figure it all out. Until a chance meeting with Dr. Mikayla Salim in a hotel bar changes my course. She's everything I'm not. Full of life and on a mission of her own. To change the world through her research. In a few short days, she's done the impossible. Given me hope. But now she's in danger. And I'm the only man with the skills to save her. To protect her. And I will.