After the murder of his wife, Jake Mallory stopped believing in anything good. Now, as an operative for Last Chance Rescue, he's found a new purpose but he'll never let his guard down again. The beautiful and much too vulnerable Angela is a temptation like no other-one he dare not take. Hearing that she's going to be an operative is a surprise, but Jake is stunned to learn her first assignment will be to bait and trap the Red Rose killer. Assigned to be her partner, Jake knows he wouldn't have it any other way. He failed the last woman he cared about...he won't fail Angela.

Angela thought going undercover as an exotic dancer would be the toughest part of the job, and Jake thought keeping his hands off his partner would be his biggest challenge. They were both wrong. Taught to expect the unexpected, Angela faces events she never anticipated and Jake must allow the unthinkable. Now it's a fight for survival because evil has more than one face and to stay alive, death may be the only option.