Selena McCaffrey knows what it's like to fight for your life, to hone your body until it's sharp and to never let down your guard--for anyone. A beautiful artist with a dark, painful past, Selena also knows how to keep secrets. With a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson and a double-edged dagger packed in her bags, Selena is leaving Key West for the American heartland. She's going to kill a man.Fourteen years ago, a chance encounter plunged Selena into the grasp of a criminal mastermind, William Davis, who became her protector and twisted father-figure. Now William has ordered her to move in next door to a Tulsa cop investigating a triple homicide. A man of quiet strength, Detective Tony Ceola is closer than he knows to bringing down William's criminal empire. But as Selena slowly gets to know her new neighbor, her past starts slipping away and a choice appears before her eyes: between the man who trapped her in a world of violence and lies--and another who can set her...

UNDERCOVER–AND TOTALLY EXPOSED . . .Tall, lithe Selena McCaffrey turns heads on the streets–and hides an assassin's knife beneath her clothes. In another life, Selena would have chosen a peaceful career as a painter. But as a child, fate plunged her into a fight for survival–and a trusted father-figure forced her into a life of crime. Now the feds want Selena to go undercover. Her assignment: break up the criminal empire once run by her protector and mentor. But playing a double game threatens the first good thing she's ever had with a man–an honest Tulsa cop–and draws Selena into a high-stakes sting filled with deception and shocking violence. Surrounded by danger–and coming closer to uncovering a chilling truth about herself and her past–Selena is about to find out just how much deeper she'll have to go . . . to get out alive.From the Paperback edition.