Love had never been part of any plan in the ruthless world of crime. Having forged her life on loyalty and duty, Ava Smith has hidden scars from her past beneath a vibrant smile. With her next mission as the CIA’s premier agent, it should be just another job … until it leads her directly in the path of Alexander Vendez, New York’s most feared mafia king. Cold, unfeeling, and most of all dangerous, Alexander rules over his empire with an iron fist and a heart of ice.Alexander is left vulnerable when an ambush takes place, and only an unlikely bodyguard—a woman with secrets as deadly as his own—is able to take him in and save his life. Alexander isn’t the monster Ava expected behind the criminal empire, and she never thought her assignment would lead to her heart being entangled. Lines blur, betrayals revealed, enemies learn love, and one night becomes a sleeping sin.Trapped between a desire to protect her mission and the man that calls into question her very existence, Ava has to make a choice: expose him to justice or sacrifice everything in the name of love that could end them both.In a world of betrayal, nothing goes undetected forever.The greatest danger might not be her losing her heart…It might be losing her life.