Michael “Tex” Penn comes under fire when a mission goes bad and the Navy pilot embedded with the team is killed in action. The pilot's wife, the daughter of an influential senator, wants answers the Navy has forbidden him to give. The OP was as black as night and Top Secret classified. A JAG officer and her partner are assigned to investigate the case to determine what happened during the mission and why the pilot died. In steps Lieutenant Nora Wilson, blonde, blue-eyed and in charge, the kind of confident woman who stirs his blood. But she’s the enemy. She wants his team to spill the details which goes against everything he’s been taught.

A former Super Hornet pilot and Navy aviator, Nora already knows she’s going to get push back, already understands that Navy SEALs usually take their secrets to the grave, but a man is dead, and she’s been directed to get the pilot's wife her answers. The minute she comes up against their steely-eyed, confident CO, she knows she has her work cut out for her. Clashing with him professionally, leads to getting closer to him personally than she should. Her mission and her career could be on the line if she were discovered sleeping with the enemy. But when they finally spill the beans, Nora finds herself taking that same fateful OP to finish out the mission that will take her deep onto foreign soil with only the SEALs at her back.