Agent Jonah Pratt heads the Secret Service team guarding the President's husband. When a routine day turns into a dangerous assassination attempt, the stranger who dives into the melee and takes down the assassin complicates the situation, sparking Jonah's anger. Just back from multiple tours of duty in Iraq, Benji hides the fact that he brought the war home with him and that it continues to haunt him. His actions in stopping the would-be assassin are more instinct than strategy. And his first conversation with a furious Jonah doesn't end well. Losing a member of his team turns Jonah's world upside down. And if Benji seems to know exactly what Jonah is experiencing, it's because he went through the same thing in combat. Jonah's work consumes him, leaving little room in his life for anything else, and Benji focuses on his studies, working to keep his nightmares at bay. But when they get together, Jonah and Benji recognize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for love and happinessaone worth fighting for.

Author Biography

Michael Murphy first thought about writing when he was very young, but put the idea aside in order to celebrate his fifth birthday and then forgot about it for a year or two. Periodically, he toyed with the idea but each time rejected it as pure folly. It wasn't until he was an old man of twelve that he wrote his first book. A long dry spell followed. To pay the bills, Michael is Director of IT for a national organization based in Washington, DC, but he'd rather be writing full-time.