Shelby Cervosier murdered three men in self-defense. Brutally beaten and raped by her captors, she does what any woman would do: kill or die. To avoid manslaughter charges, one involving a sadistic immigration officer, Shelby cooperates with the Caribbean Basin Task Force, a sleazy undercover government agency. In exchange for legal amnesty and political asylum in the United States, she completes a treacherous mission in Haiti. Now the agent who hired her wants her dead. Facing a contract on her life, Shelby flees with her younger sister, Carmen, to find safe haven in America with two assassins in close pursuit.

Hank Pekins accepts the contract. Like any competent killer-for-hire, he captures Shelby and escorts her . . . to his farm in a remote part of Colorado? That wasn’t part of the deal. A killer kills. A paid assassin doesn’t protect an illegal immigrant and turn her into his lover.

In a coldhearted profession where ruthlessness rules and emotions obscure an annihilator’s judgment, passion has no clout at the critical moment the job must be executed. But Hank knows that his own days are numbered. Money cannot buy human life. Especially not the life of the woman he adores beyond reason.

The second assassin loves no one. Vlad, known as The Impaler, intends to complete his assignment. First, he will torture Shelby in his trademark style, and then he will kill her. No one, not even Hank, will stand in this psychopath’s way. For Shelby Cervosier, what will be The Price Of Sanctuary?