"With superb characters and a plot that is a real page-turner, readers will not be able to put this modern day narco-cartel thriller down." ---InD'Tale Magazine "Be sure to block out enough time to read this one from cover to cover because there aren't any good places to stop." ---Meridian Magazine **Winner of the RONE Award Honorable Mention for Best Suspense/Thriller** They say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer . . . Hostage Negotiation Team member Bart Gutierrez is shocked to find Lucy Aguayo, a girl he knew as a teenager, working for the deadly Castillo drug cartel. This revelation uncovers a secret in Bart's family so big it forces him to accept a dangerous offer: infiltrate the cartel to keep his family safe. Once inside the cartel's headquarters he discovers that a large-scale attack on America is imminent and the only way to prevent it is to bring Lucy in on his plans---and hope she doesn't betray him. Lucy Aguayo has become a key player in the Castillo cartel, but not for money or power---she's on a mission of vengeance for her father's murder. Just when she gets a chance to bring down the cartel leader responsible, Bart Gutierrez appears, stirring up buried feelings and disrupting all her plans. But as the enemy closes in from all sides, Lucy must choose between being free from her past or finding justice for it. Can she give up everything she's ever worked for and reach for something more? Other books in the award-winning Hostage Negotiation series: All Fall Down (Hostage Negotiation Team #1) Falling Slowly (Hostage Negotiation Team #1.5) Ashes Ashes (Hostage Negotiation Team #2) From the Ashes (Hostage Negotiation Team #2.5) Pocket Full of Posies (Hostage Negotiation Team #3) Forget Me Not (Hostage Negotiation Team #3.5) Ring Around the Rosie (Hostage Negotiation Team #4)