Falling Fast

Charlie Colebrook grew up surrounded by overprotective Marines, and she guards the independence she won after leaving that house. She works as a computer forensics expert for the DEA, a civilian rather than an agent, and she wants to prove what she can do. She avoids serious relationships because they could tie her down.

Her boss offers her a dangerous undercover assignment. The target is the key money launderer for the deadliest drug cartel in the Western hemisphere. Charlie takes the job at once, though it puts her in real danger.

Her partner on the operation is DEA Special Agent Jamie Rodriguez of the FAST Bravo unit. He is her brother's best friend, and he has spent years ignoring the heat between them. With Charlie he wants everything or nothing, and he has the training to keep her alive.

Protecting her is his duty, and she tempts him anyway, in a romantic suspense plot that keeps attraction and danger side by side. The final operation pushes both of them to their limits, and a trap built by the cartel leaves them with only each other to rely on.