Ashley Orrick would protect her son at all costs. But escaping her all-powerful ex, whose infinite resources seemed almost impossible to elude, was one thing – shaking the exceptional Colby agents was quite another.

Keith Devers had finally made the leap from analyst to investigator only to be presented with a conflict of interest. Something didn’t add up about Ashley. Was it her long scarlet hair or emerald-green eyes…? More than that, it was her maternal ferocity that made Keith break all the rules.

But fleeing form danger could only get them so far from the one thing they couldn’t escape – runaway passions.