>New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard weaves intense emotion, potent suspense, and breath-taking action into her most seductive thriller to date.>On a sultry afternoon in a small dusty village, Milla Boone faces every parents nightmare. Two assailants kidnap her six-week-old son, leaving Milla in a pool of blood.For ten years Millas resolve to find her son never wavers. Returning to the scene of the crime, Milla begins to piece together not only her sons fate, but the fate of countless other children who have disappeared in to what appears to be an elaborate and highly lucrative baby smuggling ring. Cautiously, she joins forces with James Diaz, a dangerous stranger with his own agenda, a man who is as untrusting as he is untrustworthy.As Millas search for her son intensifies, along with a growing desire for Diaz, the quest becomes more treacherous. Suddenly entangled in an intricate criminal network of conspiracy and murder, Milla finds herself the hunted - the target of a lethal force of hired assassins that aims to silence her permanently.