Is targeting the Guardians merely a distraction or is it the first step to a terrorist attack on the nations capital?

When someone close to Viktor Baran becomes a target of an assassin, he vows a hellfire of a payback. But the enemy is cunning and avoids the trappings of the digital web, preferring to strike out from the shadows. Drawing on old-fashioned cloak and dagger methods to investigate the enemy's hatred for the Guardians, he uncovers a link to a past he is reluctant to revisit.

Eight years ago, Marissa Cole walked away from the man she loved. New to CIA black ops then, she was overwhelmed by the intensity of the man who would stop at nothing, no matter how ruthless, to get the job done. Don't get involved with the person you work with has become her motto ever since—until a series of events throws her back into Viktor Baran's world.

Danger and mayhem are the perfect formula to reignite their passion, and Viktor has decided hes done fighting his attraction to Marissa. He's determined to make her his. However, their road to a happily ever after is a bumpy one. Years on the job have stripped Viktor of his humanity, and unless he can break down his walls enough to let Marissa into his heart, he could lose her again.

Friendships will be broken. Beliefs will be shaken, and their relationship will be tested.

For the stakes are too high, and there is a growing threat, not only to AGS, but also to every government agency critical to the countrys safety.

* Strong sexual content and language. Some disturbing situations. Recommended 18-years old and above.

A grumpy princess. A laid-back Navy SEAL. A road trip. What could go wrong?

Thala Targen is known as the ice princess.

Sister to the Queen of Venusstea, she is a general in the royal guard and the next in line to the throne.

After an attempt on the queen's life makes Thala a suspect, she goes on the run in the city of Los Angeles.

Forced in proximity with a mysterious agent—or a possible kidnapper—she soon finds the man's easygoing personality grating on her last nerve.

But she needs him to prove her innocence.

Hank Bristow is known as the unruffled one.

Quick to smile, a nomad by nature, he goes rogue on instinct.

An instinct that has him rescuing a prickly princess from a fiery death.

Regrets may come later, but he's looking forward to pulling that stick out of her royal a$$.

However, he soon discovers there's more to Thala underneath that ice.

And he can't wait to show her there's more to life than being a princess.

Unfortunately, his heart didn't get the memo that the princess wasn't his to keep.

Shallow. Unappealing.

Nico De Lucci's biting opinion of her is seared into Ivy's brain.

Not that she should care.

No way is she giving Nico the power to whittle away at her self-confidence.

Confidence she fought so hard to achieve.

Obnoxious. Mr. Satan.

Choice words Ivy Wu reserves especially for him.

He will do anything and say anything to protect his sister from Ivy's influence.

Even if she paints him as the villain.

When Ivy gets entangled with Nico's old rival,

he steps in to protect her because she's his friend's baby sister.

Combustible heat flares between them.

They give in to one scorching hate-filled night.

But one night is not enough.

Especially when a De Lucci becomes obsessed.