Jane Nichols is living the good life in Savannah, Georgia. Sharing a home with the man she loves, she spends her days writing bestselling, hardboiled novels under the pseudonym of "Max Murdock". With her days of covert operations and life-threatening missions behind her, she should be ecstatic. Instead she's bored. So when MI5 (England's FBI) calls her back for another mission, she jumps at the chance to go. The grandson of a member of parliament has been taken hostage, and he must be rescued without word leaking out to the press. For Jane's expert team, it should be a piece of cake. Until she learns that the kidnapping has something to do with the murder of her own parents over 30 years ago.