When CIA analyst Grace Chancellor is taken prisoner in the lawless mountains of Afghanistan, Griff Cabot believes only one man has any chance of getting her out alive. Landon James, a former member of the External Security Team, knows the country and its people better than anyone in the agency. Besides, Landon and Grace have a lot of personal history that leads Griff to believe he won’t turn down the request to mount a rescue attempt.

Although it had taken Landon years to forget the woman who walked away because she wanted a commitment he couldn’t give, he is more than willing to go after Grace. The mission, however, will be on his terms. The renegade agent has his own score to settle in a country where he once operated undercover.

What Landon doesn’t realize is that not everyone in the CIA is anxious to have Grace return. Forced to fight hostile tribesmen and perhaps even his own countrymen, Landon discovers that he is again falling in love with Grace Chancellor and that the same questions that drove them apart before still have no answers.