Alyssa Locke - a sexy woman and one of the best FBI agents - picks up her work phone and hears the alarmed voice of a man whom she would prefer to forget forever. Her former lover, her pain, her secret passion - Lieutenant of the Sixteenth Naval Detachment - Sam Starrett reports the kidnapping of his daughter and the brutal murder of his wife Mary-Lou, accused of having connections with terrorists...

It is Alyssa who is entrusted with the investigation of the case of Mary-Lou's murder, although the victim's disfigured face makes it difficult to positively identify her. None other than Sam becomes the main suspect in this case. Thus begins a new round of their unpredictable relationship.

“A ban on love. On the edge" - about love that knows no prohibitions. About professionalism that outlaws passion. About jealousy, revenge, tenderness and despair. About the brink to which Susanne Brockmann's characters will reach in this intense, multifaceted, criminal... love story.