A rowdy soiree hosted by Lieutenant Clutterbuck is beginning to wind down when a young boy appears and captivates the revelers with a tale about a father-and-son duo with whom the lieutenant is acquainted. It turns out that the pair are master thieves. Though the boy's story ends on an ambiguous note, Clutterbuck begins to wonder if he might be the next target.

Six years ago, the woman Carter Blake loved disappeared and told him not to ever look for her. For six long years, he kept that promise. She was a woman on the run—a woman with a secret many would kill for. It was better that she stay hidden.

But now someone else is looking for her. Trenton Gage is a hit man with a talent for finding people—dead or alive. And his next job is to track down the woman Carter Blake once loved, a woman