If life as a not-fully-human has taught Agent Grace Masterson anything, it's that she'll never again be anyone's sitting duck. Whoever is deftly evading the traps around her remote sanctuary outside Seattle, she intends to shove his easily sensed self-confidence way, way up where the sun don't shine. When she comes face to face--and body to body--with Darrius Hilliard, relief and lingering guilt over past choices weaken her knees. Plus something bad. Really bad. A surprising, intense desire for her fellow agent. Darrius knows what Grace needs, and it's not the kid-glove treatment. If she's ever to overcome her past trauma and return to full active duty status with the P.I.A, she needs a strong shoulder. Yet he's shocked at how quickly he's become physically and emotionally entwined with her. Fighting their growing attraction to one another becomes secondary, though, when it becomes clear that someone not only isn't thrilled at Grace's return, they want her gone. Maybe even dead.