Within an intrepid world of high profile international rivalry, two men struggle for glory, survival, and their claim on a turbid past. As stakes escalate and conflict turns venomous, their destinies entwine in a lethal tangle of resentment, calamity, sacrifice...and the unacceptable risk of regret.

The shame of terrible deeds past can drive a man to self contempt. So it is with Mick Calahan, anonymous, disconsolate, shielding the world from himself in priest's robes. But a disturbing assignment and the desperate trust of a young woman threaten to make him choose between staying buried and unleashing the phantoms that haunt his past.Drawn into Gabriella's taut, troubled paradise, Mick harbors a dark secret--that his signature quality is not virtue. And the woman knows, and the...