With a murderous secret and a dark history few but Helen Eriksson know, an uncertain path lies ahead of her. Helen's past, present and future are on a collision course with a sense of morality she wonders if she ever possessed. Her husband's corpse is barely cold, laid to rest under a shroud of suspicion directed at her by former peers at the FBI. Revenge boils in her veins against the one who shattered her perfect life, or the carefully constructed illusion of such. One thing Helen does not believe is that coincidences happen. So when an opportunity falls into her lap to slip through the web of the FBI investigation into her ex-husband's murder and darken the doorstep of the man she holds responsible for her professional ruin, Helen is hard pressed to resist the lure. Rather than arriving in Darkwater Bay anonymously, Helen walks with full knowledge into what she understands could be a trap sprung by her nemesis, Danny Datello. But the shield of a police detective's badge can't protect her from what she fears she has become by genetic birthright - a hardened murderer just like the father who shaped her into the woman she has become. What Helen doesn't count on is investment in anything but her own plot of revenge. To her surprise, the discovery of a body mere hours before her arrival in Darkwater Bay draws her into more than her own conflicted desires, but a corrupt city with its own secrets. Even more shocking is the realization that Helen craves more than Datello's punishment; justice for a dead victim.

Being paid to seduce her boss' son will prove harder then she thought.

When Rebecca Klarke moves in next door to Leo and Jace Reed, she is immediately infatuated with the two. Jace is tall, athletic and gorgeous; plus a total bad boy. So, of course, Rebecca couldn't help but be automatically attracted to him, even though she knows it won't end well for her. Leo, on the other hand, is cute, smart, and very ... safe. The kind of guy she knows she should be with. When both boys find themselves reciprocating her feelings; she's forced to decide which one she wants to be with. The brooding bad boy Jace or the cute and nerdy Leo. Does she really have to choose only one?