This assignment was the most difficult of nurse Maggie Oliver's career. In order to save a sick baby, she had to go undercover. And the hardest part was that her cover was a make-believe honeymoon — with the man who'd once been her real-life lover....

She'd thought she could handle playing at passion with CIA agent Noah Brant. But as they raced to stay one step ahead of the enemy — and save a lost little girl, all alone in the world — she realized how wrong she'd been.

His unforgotten raw masculine power — and the devastating, unsuspected tenderness he showed that orphaned child — made her wish this deadly charade could somehow lead them back to the love they'd lost....