She's the good girl he should stay away from; he's the danger she can't resist-and between them, faith and desire collide in a war neither is prepared to lose.

In 1961 Paris, as racial tension divides a nation, Nalda Caspian has spent her life hiding behind golden eyes and dark locks, trusting God to protect her from the danger pursuing her. But her family's secrets cannot remain buried forever when Zander Tyrwhitt enters her world-a charming assassin with secrets of his own.

Though her faith warns her to stay away, Zander's deadly mission soon becomes entangled with her fate, igniting a forbidden romance neither of them expected.

Now Zander faces an impossible choice: complete the mission he was sent to do...or risk everything to save the woman he was never supposed to love.