"Anthropologist Allison Pinckney is stunned when she inherits the key to a seventeenth-century pirate cipher that makes her the target of two brutal arms dealers. Now, to save those she loves, she must solve the cipher. With this perilous mission growing ever more dangerous, she reluctantly seeks help from ex-Green Beret Zack Tremaine, the one man she's been avoiding. Because if she gives in to her long-buried feelings for him, it could cost them...