Feisty criminal attorney Jessica Ford has done her best to comply with
the orders of the Secret Service's unofficial witness protection program
ever since she became the lone witness to the First Lady's murder.
Unfortunately, winning her first high-profile case for a prestigious
Washington, D.C., law firm, subsequently landing her face all over the
news, is not exactly "keeping a low profile." Or so says hunky Secret
Service agent Mark Ryan, whose newest assignment is keeping her safe at
all costs. It just so happens he's also her ex-boyfriend.
The trial earns Jess a permanent spot on the firm's legal defense team,
replacing an associate who eloped and never came back. But Jess's mind
has raced from the moment the prosecution's star witness shocked the
courtroom with a revelation involving the handsome son of a powerful
U.S. senator. Was the pretty young mother intimidated into changing her
story on the stand? Why won't she return Jess's calls? Did Jess's
predecessor really just abandon her successful career? Or did both women
mysteriously disappear?
After Mark rescues Jess from an attack outside her apartment, she begins
to consider the possibility that she is a target. Maybe it's not so bad
to have her irresistibly charming and hard-bodied former lover around
for protection. The question is, which of the many inadvertent enemies
Jess has made recently is he protecting her from? The investigation
leads her to some startling coincidences--and to a teenage runaway who
may just hold the missing link...if Jess can find her.
