The first book in the new OPAQUE Task Force series:

Protector Agent Josh Slater spent years working for the secret government-sponsored agency known as OPAQUE, hoping to make peace with the guilt he feels as the son of the man responsible for OPAQUE's founding director's death. Now assigned to protect the ex-director's daughter, Mackenzie Baudin, from being used as leverage by Coercion Ten, Josh hopes to find the missing clue to the man's identify. Instead he finds police corruption, a prostitute hiding secrets in her big-heart, a man buried with no body and his own redemption through the truth to Mackenzie. Meanwhile, having Josh assigned as her protector creates only an emotional hiccup for Mackenzie, but forewarning that within the next twenty-four hours she'll know the complete truth about her life hits like the plane crash that killed her parents.