Talon Rift is one of the best in the business, and his business is tough. As a soldier in the elite Dragon Corps, Talon is efficient, deadly, and nigh unstoppable. As a leader, he's famously protective of the men and women he leads. And for very, very personal reasons, Talon refuses to rest until the Warlord of Ymir is taken down. Unfortunately for Talon, the Warlord knows he's being hunted - and he's sent assassins to make sure Talon and his crew are taken out. Unfortunately for the Warlord, however, one of those assassins on Tera - a woman he rescued from the slums of Osiris, a woman of absolute loyalty. ...And a woman, as it happens, who never knew just who her protector was. To protect him in return, Tera will stop at nothing to take Talon down - and having forbidden her to take this mission, the Warlord will stop at nothing to get Tera back before she learns the truth about him. The battle was always going to be close. Talon and Tera are two of the very best, weapons honed in the fires of battle. The problem that no one could have foreseen, however, was the heat between them. As lies and truths converge, and the final showdown grows ever closer, will the two warriors learn from one another how to love? Or will they destroy the one person who might have understood them?