They're coming for her.

Over his dead body.

Cybersecurity queen Delilah Davis's first field assignment should have been routine?run a system check in a dust-baked one-street town in West Texas, shake a few hands, and head back to HQ. But the locals are anything but friendly.

Then the phones go dead.

Every road out is blocked.

And armed men stand between them and escape.

Former Texas Ranger Zack Adam knows this isn't random. Someone went to a lot of trouble to stop them from leaving?and his gut says Delilah's notorious past is the reason.

If Zack can't find a way out, the men hunting them won't just tighten the noose around his neck?they'll turn Delilah into their weapon.

They walked into a trap.

Now it's a standoff