Marissa



I didn't want this life.



But sometimes you're forced to make the best of the crappy hand you've been dealt. I wanted to teach my daughter that. No matter what happens you face your problems head-on.



Never cower. Never give up.



Then someone took her and I had to put my faith in a system that had failed me, and my hope in a man I didn't know.



Mick



Serve. Honor. Protect, are the only things I've ever cared about until her case was dropped on my desk. As we searched for her missing daughter, the last woman I thought I'd fall in love with became my reason for living.



Then the world came crashing down around us.



One secret would change everything, but I had one more hand to be dealt. And if I played my cards right, maybe, just maybe we'd get our piece of heaven.



Contains mature themes.