Five years of silence. Five years of separate lives. Ben Ripley is now an elite CIA operative. Erica Hale abandoned espionage to become a billionaire model in Manhattan, leaving without a single word of explanation. When SPYDER resurfaces with a catastrophic new plan, the CIA needs the best team ever assembled. Ben has no choice-he needs Erica for one last mission, or maybe not. Their reunion ignites with fury, unresolved passion, and five years of buried pain. Working undercover to protect the President's family, Ben and Erica must navigate deadly conspiracies, shocking betrayals, and feelings they thought were dead. But SPYDER's endgame is bigger than anyone imagined. And the truth about why Erica disappeared will shatter everything. Some secrets are worth killing for. Some loves are worth dying for.

Benjamin Ripley isn't your average sixteen-year-old spy school recruit. As the grandson of legendary spy Theodore Ripley, Ben has been trained in espionage since he was two years old. When he arrives at the CIA Academy of Espionage, he's not the awkward newbie-he's a force to be reckoned with. Muscular, skilled, and devastatingly competent, Ben catches everyone's attention, especially that of Erica Hale, the academy's infamous Ice Queen and the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. But Ben's arrival coincides with something far more sinister. His grandfather has discovered SPYDER-a ruthless international crime organization-has stolen a tactical nuclear warhead and plans to detonate it in Washington D.C. during the State of the Union address. With millions of lives at stake and a mole inside the CIA, Ben and Erica must form an unlikely partnership to stop the attack. As they race against time through dangerous missions, intense firefights, and impossible odds, the walls around Erica's heart begin to crumble. When they face what they believe are their final moments together in front of a ticking nuclear bomb, they're forced to confront not just the threat of annihilation-but their feelings for each other. With only minutes to spare, two detonation codes to crack, and SPYDER agents hunting them through a Philadelphia warehouse, Ben and Erica must trust each other completely. Because if they fail, it's not just their lives on the line-it's the entire Eastern seaboard. Action. Espionage. Romance. And a nuclear countdown that won't stop.