★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EVERYONE HAS SECRETS THEY WANT TO KEEP! ★ ★ ★ ★ ★Jaclyn Jones has earned her stripes for the FBI: PAVAD division over the last four years. When a murder case involving a friend of hers comes into PAVAD's jurisdiction, Jac takes the lead.Along with her former partner Max Jones-same last name, absolutely no relation. They were nothing to each other any longer. They were previously known as the infamous duo, Jones and Jones-until one heated kiss changed everything between them.A kiss that sent Max running for the proverbial hills like his boxers were on fire. Now Jac has to put all of her chaotic feelings where Max is concerned aside to focus on finding her murdered friend's missing daughters-two little girls who eerily remind Jac of herself and her own younger sister. The little sister Jac will always protect. Jac and her sister had been vulnerable and in the hands of a madman once, too.★ ★ ★ SECRETS. LIES. ENEMIES. ★ ★ ★But there are more secrets in PAVAD than one heated kiss between partners-and those secrets have a way of coming to the surface at the worst possible time.A PAVAD agent is dead, his wife and three children devastated-and the killer is targeting people Jac considers friends. Family. The people she loves. Now, the only people she knows she can trust completely are the ones on her team-and the one man who has almost always had her back. ★ ★ ★ SAFE. IN HIS ARMS. ★ ★ ★ The only place Jac truly feels safe now is in Max's arms.Jac and Max have to figure things out-both on the job and between themselves fast.Because if the enemy is as close as Max suspects, they might not ever get the chance again...