<p><B>Marissa</B></p><p>I didn't want this life.</p><p>But sometimes you're forced to make the best of the crappy hand you've been dealt. I wanted to teach my daughter that. No matter what happens you face your problems head-on.</p><p>Never cower. Never give up.</p><p>Then someone took her and I had to put my faith in a system that had failed me and my hope in a man I didn't know.</p><p><B>Mick</B></p><p>Serve. Honor. Protect are the only things I've ever cared about until her case was dropped on my desk. As we searched for her missing daughter the last woman I thought I'd fall in love with became my reason for living.</p><p>Then the world came crashing down around us.</p><p>One secret would change everything but I had one more hand to be dealt. And if I played my cards right maybe just maybe we'd get our piece of heaven.</p><p>Contains mature themes.</p>