Scorched — Rachel Butler

Beautiful assassin Selena McCaffrey trails a chilling history. From her birth as the love child of a rich Southern family to her childhood on the streets, Selena had one option: to survive. Now she wants nothing more than to put the past behind her and start a new life with the man she loves, homicide detective Tony Ceola. But Selena's enemies have other plans.

Someone has put out a half-million-dollar contract on Selena's life--and two of the world's most elite assassins have taken the job. As she and Tony race from Tulsa to Atlanta to Alabama on a high-stakes chase to expose the vicious criminal behind it all, what they discover will change their lives forever: a scorching secret about Selena's past, about her mother's death--and about how close her worst enemy really is....