Sometimes love is the most dangerous mission of all...Colter "Ninja" Graham is a loner, the quiet outsider who's more comfortable observing life instead of living it. Unseen. Unheard. Unnoticed-until he needs to be. Loyalty and honor are values to never be broken-until he meets the only woman he's ever felt a connection to. A woman who makes him question every code he's lived by-and the only woman who's ever made him run away.Allison Hess lost her heart to her brother's friend on an island paradise more than a year ago. Immersing herself in her volunteer work helps her forget the dark eyes and silent need, but her work has become more than just a way to forget. Helping the lost women is a way to atone for the guilt she still feels for what happened a year ago, for unknowingly turning her back on one young woman desperately in need of help and unable to ask for it.When her path crosses Colter's again, the last thing she expects is the fiery passion and burning need that erupts between them. And when Allison is thrust into the middle of a dangerous trafficking ring, Colter knows his time for running away is over...because this time, there's more at stake than just their hearts-and more than one life on the line.