Like many others of Brockmann's books, this isn't the story of just one romance. It has at least three. And at least two suspense plots, and I'm very glad it's her trying to keep all these threads of story straight and not me.

So, the hero is Vinh Murphy, the husband of the woman who was killed in Cosmo and Jane's story. The heroine is the dead woman's best friend--and Murphy's best friend too. She was in a really bad car accident shortly after her friend died, that cost her her job as a cop, and she and Murphy both spiraled out of control afterward. The other hero is Izzy Zanella who's never been able to get along with one of the other guys on his SEAL team, and he winds up helping out that guy's much younger black-sheep sister. Then the guy, the nutjob neo-Nazi, who inspired the murder of Murphy's wife turns up dead, the FBI want to talk to Murphy about it, and Murphy isn't real sure he didn't do it, because that time period is pretty much a blur. He can't remember. There's lots of action, lots of emotion, lots of tying up of plotlines from earlier stories, and even more tangling up of stuff, including plotlines from earlier stories that you might have thought were settled... and a thoroughly enjoyable read. I really liked this book.