First published 2003
Willy Jane Maitland arrives in Saigon with one mission: find out what happened to her father, who vanished twenty years earlier during the war. The official records list him as missing in action, but Willy suspects there's more to the story. Her search leads her into a web of lies and deadly secrets. When someone tries to kill her, only Guy Barnard offers help. The ex-soldier appears rumpled and irreverent, but Willy discovers he carries secrets of his own. Meanwhile, former CIA agent Ami Donovan wakes up with no memory of her past. Michal Arad has kidnapped her, convinced she betrayed him by posing as his lover while setting him up as an assassin. Ami can't remember any of it. As Michal holds her captive, fragments of memory surface. She begins to suspect he isn't the ruthless killer he claims to be, but someone she once loved deeply. Both women must navigate deception and violence to uncover truths that could destroy them.
Genres: adventure, mystery, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Saigon, Vietnam
Period: 20th-century
504 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Harlequin
Content warnings: violence