Claire Bennett saw the one thing a senator's chief donor needed her to forget. Now the only person standing between her and a bullet is a U. S. Marshal who isn't supposed to want her at all. Marshal Sawyer Cole has protected eleven witnesses without ever once breaking his own cardinal rule: no attachment, no exceptions, no reason for a target to become a person he can't lose. Claire breaks the rule in the first forty-eight hours, and he doesn't have the luxury of pretending otherwise - not with a leak somewhere inside the program itself feeding her location to the men who want her dead.
Trapped together in a string of safe houses with a trial date closing in and no one in the Marshals Service she can be certain isn't compromised, Claire has to decide how much of her life she's willing to hand to a stranger's protection. Sawyer has to decide whether the one rule that's kept every witness before her alive is worth breaking for the one woman he can't survive losing. The trial is the least dangerous part of what's coming.
The mole is closer than either of them thinks - and the next safe house might not be safe at all.
Claire Bennett saw the one thing a senator's chief donor needed her to forget. Now the only person standing between her and a bullet is a U. S. Marshal who isn't supposed to want her at all. Marshal Sawyer Cole has protected eleven witnesses without ever once breaking his own cardinal rule: no attachment, no exceptions, no reason for a target to become a person he can't lose. Claire breaks the rule in the first forty-eight hours, and he doesn't have the luxury of pretending otherwise - not with a leak somewhere inside the program itself feeding her location to the men who want her dead.
Trapped together in a string of safe houses with a trial date closing in and no one in the Marshals Service she can be certain isn't compromised, Claire has to decide how much of her life she's willing to hand to a stranger's protection. Sawyer has to decide whether the one rule that's kept every witness before her alive is worth breaking for the one woman he can't survive losing. The trial is the least dangerous part of what's coming.
The mole is closer than either of them thinks - and the next safe house might not be safe at all.