A man who has given his all in defense of the Crown encounters the one woman destined to make him understand he's allowed a life of his own.Trystan Wilkes has secretly served the Crown for years. Josephine Adrys is the one woman he can't forget. She becomes an unwitting pawn in a cloak-and-dagger game with The Alchemist, once believed dead. As the threat of death shadows them, his only choice-protect the woman who owns his heart. Jo knows what the...