Can a wounded warrior and a healer fight their way to safety and find a future together? It started as a regular team mission to rescue aid workers and children—dangerous like so many others. But it quickly derails when one of the hostages kills two of her captors and escapes by jumping into the Amazon River. Sully Carter saves her from drowning, but he’s shot, and it’s a race to the extraction point before infection can set in and endanger his life. Internationally based traveling nurse Jane Laurier has been betrayed before and is no stranger to danger. She’s clueless about how to deal with a man who’s kind, wants to take care of her and looks at her as if she’s special. Feeling like she owes him her life, and guilty because his distinguished career might be over, she stays by his side, taking on the role of protector. As Sully slowly heals, he starts thinking about a future with Jane, never dreaming they will face a bigger threat on the home front.