When Jax Duncan stumbles across a mob execution, she becomes the next target for the hit man and the prime suspect for Special Agent Lincoln Montgomery. She decides to hide out until the case is solved and her name cleared. In each new city she tries to make a life for herself, but no place feels safe. She can still hear the violent confrontation, smell the blood . . . she still watches over her shoulder everywhere she goes, terrified of being discovered . . . eliminated. Now her worst fears have come true. The hit man has found her. And so has Special Agent Montgomery, the one person with the power to either lock her up or clear her name—if only he'll believe her. Unwilling to take that chance, she must run again. Only this time she has an added burden . . . a wounded FBI agent who depends on her to keep him alive until he's well enough to arrest her.

It seemed like the perfect plan. But when the trail of evidence leads into the Louisiana bayou, he'll find himself fighting for his life. Houston, Texas. Tom Meyers believes rules keep chaos at bay. But the brilliant defense attorney is bored with his recent slate of cases. So when a woman is accused of murdering her abusive husband, he takes her as a pro bono client, convinced that a high-profile acquittal will make him a household name. As he digs for clues to the dead man's past, Tom dispatches his offbeat investigator to Baton Rouge, where she discovers the deceased had a whole other family and a job dealing drugs. But when she disappears into the swamp, the by-the-book lawyer is devastated. And with dirty cops and smugglers hot on his heels, the only way to rescue her and get his client off is to break every rule he's sworn to uphold. Can Tom protect two women – and save his own head – before the law is twisted against him?