"Here I am, staring at the most beautiful woman in Virginia, and I can only pretend she's mine."Someone wants to end the use of private military companies and will do anything to make it happen.A platoon of soldiers is ambushed and killed during a secret mission. Their PMC security is suspiciously spared. Fearing the attack was a set-up to make the PMCs appear negligent, Knot's top people and the SEALs' Commander O'Reilly's Third Platoon team up to stage a mission to catch the traitor.The mission raises more questions than answers, so it's time to target the movement's mouthpiece, a US congressman with insider information. For that, they'll need a deep cover.She's a chameleon. No one knows the real her.Emotional scars. We've all got them. Some so thick, they keep us from being able to feel anything. Chelsea, a former Marine, keeps her painful past hidden away and only shows people what they want to see, making her the perfect undercover operative.Jackson "Clothespin" Bennett is a Navy SEAL who sees through Chelsea's fake veneer and falls in love with the woman hidden inside. Gaining her trust won't be easy, even when she's assigned to play his wife.Chelsea settles into her role as lonely wife of her fake Navy SEAL husband benefactor to the congressman's cause. The ruse works, catching the congressman's attention, though perhaps a little too well.Chelsea becomes the hunted, but Jackson is determined she'll be his prey alone.