Cold as Ice

Darby O'Roarke comes to in an unfamiliar house beside a dead man, with no memory of how she got there. Her first thought is to call the one person she can count on to make sense of it: FBI Supervisory Special Agent Eban Winters. Last summer she was drawn to him, but he turned her away, and now she is the one reaching out.

Eban works as a negotiator, and he is not supposed to get involved with someone who has been a kidnap victim. Since the day they met, he has been working hard to resist Darby. When her call reaches him, he heads north to Alaska. There, the local police want nothing to do with an outsider, and the press has turned the case into a spectacle. His first priority is getting Darby out of jail and keeping her safe.

The case takes a darker turn when another woman is savagely killed. The evidence points to Darby being set up, and to a ruthless serial killer who has slipped past the FBI for over ten years. That killer now has Darby in their crosshairs.