He stole her heart then left without a goodbye. A year later and he's back, telling her she needs protection-but the only protection she wants is from him. The pre-deployment fling Navy SEAL Matteo 'Delta' Valente couldn't forget has tortured him for his entire tour. A year later, Delta thought he was over it. Finally, he gets home, but runs into Kendra Larose again. It has been so long-but not long enough. With one look, she stirs something inside him that he'd tried to lock up after all those nights thinking of her, sleeping in dirt with nothing but his helmet for a pillow. The problem he quickly realizes is that she's in real danger. Delta's instincts prove too powerful to override. Kendra isn't so convinced. Delta has just shown up, out of nowhere, with big claims that she's in danger and needs protection? Kendra wants to see the hard evidence. She's hated him ever since he didn't call. She'd fallen hard, and he'd broken her heart with no apparent remorse. A forensic specialist working for LAPD, Kendra has blood samples to run in the lab to get to the bottom of her latest case. The thing that becomes apparent is that her case intersects a little too neatly with Delta. She can't quite figure out whose side he is on, why he's back in her life and whether she can trust him or not. So, she keeps one big secret close to her chest.