Cade's fantasy is to seduce his best friend if he isn't murdered first.His comfortable routine as a member of Sebastian St. Croix's cat burglar team is shattered the day he's pinned in a crushed car. In a moment of clarity, before everything goes dark, he realizes he's in love with his best friend, a woman who has sworn off intimate relationships for life.It's taken Bassinae years to overcome a past filled with physical abuse and embrace the truth that she is a powerful, capable woman in her own right. Tamping down a case of nerves, she's ready to take on a larger role as a thief in Sebastian's next caper. If only Cade would stop acting like a lovelorn idiot. She needs her best friend's support to help steal the Pharaoh's jewels.Set in the distant future, this sci-fi suspense romance has action and adventure as well as a sizzling romance.