Former DEA agent Michael Ian Campbell struggled with civilian life after leaving the agency when his wife was killed after blowing his cover with the Rodriguez Cartel. He barely made it out alive the day he and his family were ambushed in a drive-by ordered by Rojo Rodriguez to take him out, so he retired from the DEA and took a job as an English teacher at one of the local schools. Until the day he got word that Rojo Rodriguez had escaped, when the rest of the major players in his cartel were captured in a raid in South Texas, that is. With limited resources keeping the DEA and local law enforcement from having someone actively looking for the cartel kingpin, Ian moved there to help find the man responsible for his wife's death.
Charlotte Burleson didn't know the new English teacher she had to work with was actually a friend of her brother, Jake, and a former undercover DEA agent. She only knew him as a one-night stand she thought she'd never see again, and the most infuriating man she'd ever met.
Ian wasn't sure how to deal with finding out the hot-as-hell one-night stand he had on the night he interviewed for his new job was with the sister of a man he'd worked with on a joint task force and considered a friend. Or that she was also the other English teacher at the middle school where he started his new job in Texas. He had to keep his cover and not let on to anyone in town that he knew Jake Burleson before moving there. Not to mention the fact that he couldn't tell his friend Jake that he'd slept with his sister. He had to keep his growing attraction to Charlotte to himself, unwilling to risk getting burned if Rojo Rodriguez caught wind of his presence in town and went after her, the way he had Mari.
As danger loomed, the couple fought their instant attraction and growing connection, not realizing that standing together was the only way they could win in the end.
