The truth is guarded with a deadly vengeance . . .
Archaeologist Sarah Dunnemore is prepared for anything when she returns to her family home in Night's Landing, Tennessee . . . anything except the news that her twin brother, Rob, has just been seriously wounded by a sniper in Central Park. She rushes to New York to be with him, only to come up against no-nonsense Nate Winter, Also wounded in the attack.
As a deputy US Marshal, Nate is the best, but he's willing to break the rules to track down the would-be killer. Nate believes the official investigation is going in the wrong direction, especially when he learns that Sarah is like a surrogate daughter to her Night's Landing neighbour - none other than the president of the United States.
When Nate suspects that Sarah has held back crucial information he follows her, because he will let nothing - neither his and Sarah's growing attraction for each other, nor the mounting danger they face - stand in the way of the truth.
But in a place filled with betrayal, greed and long-held secrets, truth is guarded with a deadly vengeance.
