Her cover: sexy heiress on a French Riviera spree. Her mission: find the terrorist hacker threatening to shut down America's power grid. And SEXTANT agent Tess Bradshaw plans to play this first assignment strictly by the book. But to successfully stay under cover, she needs ex–CIA agent Cameron Cochran's wild–card expertise in breaking all the rules.

Cameron has taken this case strictly to clear his name. Helping this innocent newbie strip down to her secrets to play bad–girl bait is a nice but distracting bonus. With the clock ticking and lethal mercenaries closing in, surrendering to each other might be their only chance....