He's my one weakness. And my last hope. Just when I thought my life couldn’t get any worse…

My last performance review said it all: Unwilling to work on a team. Insubordinate to leadership. Quick to use excessive tranquilizers on targets. Now I've been expelled from HEAT, the off-the-books, secret agency that was—for one glorious year—my home. And I'd do anything to get back in the game.

Anything except work with Derek Wilder again.

But when my tall, dark, and diabolical ex-partner shows up and offers me a chance to redeem myself, it turns out I’ll even do that. I take his bait, agree to a soul-crushing code of conduct, and set out to prove I'm still agency material. There’s just the small issue of dealing with low-life thugs without killing them, and the huge problem of working with my sexy ex without falling for him.