Special Agent Grey is working on a kidnapping case—a fifteen-year-old named Juliana has been abducted in Santa Monica. Grey’s counterpart in the Santa Monica Police Department is Detective Andrew Berringer. They’ve worked together before—and they’ve been more than just working together ever since.
     It’s Ana’s job “to know the victim as if she were my own flesh and blood.” But when Juliana turns up—traumatized into a state of total and paralyzing terror—it becomes clear that Ana has gone too far: she is viewing her own life from the perspective of Juliana’s blasted emotional terrain. And in a moment of passion (Andrew has betrayed her) and panic (is it possible that he also means to harm her?) Ana points a gun at him and shoots.
     Now she is both criminal investigator and criminal as she breaks her bail agreement to continue tracking the abductor, torn between her powerful emotional connection with Juliana and the fraying connection she has to her own common sense and to the truths she knows about Andrew—and about herself.

     It is a fine line between a competitor and a killer, as Cassidy Sanderson, the only female scout in the major leagues, discovers when she finds a phenomenal young ballplayer in the Dominican Republic and is drawn into a bewildering web of deceit.  A fast-paced novel of thrilling suspense set against the background of high-stakes sports and finance in Los Angeles.

     When FBI agent Ana Grey is given a high-profile case involving a Hollywood actress, Ana's own world collides with her investigation as she confronts the truth about her family and herself.