If she hadn't been desperate, Sarita Grayson would never have made a deal with the devil.

That was only her first mistake . . .

The future of her neighborhood center and its kids is in jeopardy unless Sarita retrieves a fortune in diamonds for a gang lord. But when her escape is interrupted by a mysterious stranger, she makes her second mistake -- and bullets fly.

Catching a gorgeous black woman in the middle of his sting operation threw Mykal Chandler off his guard -- and into the path of a bullet. Now Mykal, as head of a covert government agency, is determined to find the desperate beauty who left him with a superficial wound, a million questions, and a deep, yearning desire to learn her identity.

Because Sarita has stumbled into something so dark and deadly, Mykal is her only way out . . .