His code.

Her survival.

Former Green Beret Travis Cole thinks he's hit the jackpot when he lands Hawke Asset Recovery's most coveted assignment: recovering a stolen multi-million-dollar collection of luxury timepieces from a superyacht in the Bahamas.

He expects a routine recovery in an exotic location.

Instead, waiting on the dock is Marlene Matthews.

The only woman he ever wanted.

The one woman he could never have.

Now a widow and working as an insurance investigator, Marlene is determined to uncover the truth behind the stolen watches. But the answer she wants most is why Travis missed her wedding?and cut her out of his life.

When the superyacht goes into lockdown mid-ocean, Travis and Marlene are trapped without backup, hunted deck by deck by an unseen killer.

As the danger escalates, Travis's hardest battle isn't keeping Marlene alive?it's resisting the feelings he buried years ago.

He let her down once.

He won't fail her twice.

Not while he's still breathing.