The darkest corner

Deacon Tucker is officially dead. A former black ops agent, he was disavowed, stripped of his honor and then recruited as a Gravedigger, an operative nobody knows is still alive. He will never be credited for what he does. His assignment is to save the world or die trying.

One rule binds him above the rest: a Gravedigger never falls in love. Breaking it is punishable by death, the kind a man cannot come back from.

In Last Stop, Texas, Tess Sherman runs the town's only funeral home and works as its mortician. She cannot say how Deacon ended up under her roof. He claims to be a funeral home assistant, and she does not believe it for a moment.

Tess sees a man who is dangerous, deadly and very good looking. She also knows that wanting him can only end in heartache. This is a romance with a covert-ops backdrop, and the tension builds around a rule that carries a death sentence.