She breaks people open for a living. He’s built to stay sealed.
Skylar McMahan reads people the way most people read street signs—automatically, accurately, and without hesitation. A former military intelligence officer trained in behavioral profiling and interrogation, she was brought into Shadow Ops to put faces and motives to an arms pipeline that’s been operating across the Southeast. She’s never met a subject she couldn’t crack.
Then she meets Benjamin Burkhart.
Benjamin is a defense attorney representing a client connected to the pipeline. He knows more than he can say, and privilege isn’t a strategy—it’s the law. He’s also trained to control exactly what he reveals, which makes him the first person Skylar has encountered who can read her techniques as clearly as she reads his defenses.
She needs what he knows. He can’t give it. The attraction between them is the one variable neither can profile, predict, or control. And the pipeline isn’t waiting for them to figure it out.
In Blossom Springs, the most dangerous lies are the ones you tell yourself.
