A Middle Eastern capital building has been captured by insurgents. The prime minister, his staff and a group of visiting college students have become disposable hostages. But what the rebels don't know is that someone is still loose in the building

FBI legal attaché Selena Jones took the foreign posting when her marriage hit the rocks. She's narrowly escaped becoming a hostage–but she's trapped. She has just hours to find out what the rebels are up to and outsmart their compelling leader. And her lone contact to the outside world is the one man she swore never to trust again