New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell cuts a new edge in romantic suspense

When she joined St. Kilda’s, the elite security consulting firm, Emma Cross thought she’d left behind the blood, guilt, and Tribal Wars that defined her life at the CIA. Yet trading spying for investigating yacht thefts didn’t alleviate the danger.

With some arm-twisting, St. Kilda and Emma are tracking a yacht that went missing somewhere between Vladivostok and Portland a year ago. Emma knows the boat’s intended cargo is lethal. What she needs to find out is whether it’s biological, chemical, or fissionable. And she’s got only seven days to uncover the truth . . . or a major American city will be lost.

Fortunately, she’s working with a new partner as menacing and distrustful as the worst enemy she’s ever faced-and as deadly. Thrown together by an organization of enemies with global ties more dangerous than either of them realizes, Mac and Emma must put aside their growing attraction for each other to save more than just their own lives.