Locate, identify, observe, and report that’s what Staff Sergeant Mitch Sinclair’s squad of Force Recon Marines did best. When the objective shifts, it becomes an extraction of a hostage Mitch will never forget and it’s up to him to fulfill her Christmas wish.

It has never been hard for Staff Sergeant Mitch Sinclair to keep a detached and cool head when it comes to missions, but this time around feels distinctly different.

No one is more important to Allie Summers than her father, and his missile navigations work for the government is invaluable. She only hopes that her kidnappers do not know just how much of her father’s work is her own.

Seeing Allie’s picture should have been no different than all of the other times he studied a package before an op, but it is. Those eyes see right into his soul, and she has become a woman he would very much like to get to know. The mission is fraught with danger, but Mitch will do anything and everything to keep Allie safe. The only question is, what can Allie do to keep her Marine.