Beginning her law enforcement career in a small town cop shop isn't exactly what CJ Cummings hoped it would be. Corruption rides just below the surface of Backward, Texas, but no one wants to admit there is anything wrong. Domestic violence is ignored, a member of a biker gang threatens her, several teenage girls have turned up missing, and most of those who are supposed to have her back don't want her on their all-male force. What other sinister things are lurking below the surface? Tate Wolfe has just returned home from the Army. He is as mysterious as he is handsome. He won't talk about the girls who have turned up missing, and wants CJ to stay out of things. When her life is nearly ended in a motorcycle accident, he can no longer deny his feelings for her. Still, he can't reveal what he knows about what is going on in town. How can she convince him to let her in on what's happening?