Captain Jennifer Varga has made some world-class blunders in her life. One was a disastrous marriage that left her wiser, if lonelier. The other was joining the United States Air Force. Now she desperately wants out...until a civilian co-worker dies suddenly and his computer files reveal strange discrepancies that Jennifer cannot ignore. She turns to Lieutenant Colonel Mike Page, her maddeningly straight-arrow new superior--and the only man she can trust.

Battling an attraction to his subordinate that could end his career faster than a speeding bullet, Mike joins Jennifer on a dangerous quest for the truth that takes them from a shadowy illegal training operation to the hallowed corridors of the nation's capital. Caught in a conspiracy of far-reaching proportions, they are soon running for their lives from a secret assassin who is answering their call of duty with a final, deadly retribution...