the school of hard knocks. Roller derby had taught her how to fight hard and fight dirty. Neither had prepared her for the consequences of doing the wrong favor for the wrong friend. Winding up in the crosshairs of a Federal Strike Force investigation was bad enough. She was caught in a scheme to launder a vast hoard of US currency amassed over decades of Middle Eastern graft. The money was a magnet for thieves in a world where treachery and murder were business as usual. It was definitely the wrong time for the right man to find his way into her life.