When wealthy Houston oilman Kane Lombard meets Nicole Seymour on an exclusive island in South Carolina, he has no idea she's the sister of his biggest political rival. Against the sultry backdrop of the South, passion flares between the two. But is their physical attraction enough to overcome the deep mistrust they hold for each other?

"A rollicking tale of high-stakes international intrigue filled with adventure, betrayal, and politics, that captures the tensions and divides of America and the world today. Valerie Mayberry is the FBI's counterintelligence expert on domestic terrorism. Brett Garrett is a dishonorably discharged ex-Navy SEAL, now a gun for hire, working as a security contractor in Eastern Europe. When a high ranking Kremlin official must be smuggled out of Russia,...