THE COLONEL. That's how the spies under his command think of him, in all-caps. Unbreakable, unbending, cast iron. He's timeless, always was and always will be. It's impossible to believe he's a husband and a father. But there's one woman who made him both those things, one woman who understands him, who knows all his secrets, who was there when it all began... John Caruthers has always had a mission. From early days he seemed almost supernaturally trained to be a soldier: still, silent, merciless, driven. When he learns a lone female is in the jungle of Honduras during the perilous Sandinista/Contra situation, his objective is clear: eject the woman and send her packing. She's only one woman, how hard could it be? But the woman isn't a stranger, she's someone who shares his murky past. And Juniper Dunbar has always been everything but simple. The next installment in the popular Spies Like Us Cozy Military Romance series goes back to the very beginning!