Innocent as Sin

Rand McCee just wants to be able to lose himself in his painting. After his twin brother is shot before his eyes while on a scouting mission for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can't go. On what at first appears to be an ordinary day, everything changes for private banker Kayla Shaw when she barely escapes a brutal kidnapping attempt and finds herself accused of a shocking crime: the illegal laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars. Damned by lies and false "evidence," she is trapped with no place to run. After five agonizing years, landscape painter Rand McCree has finally been offered what he desires most: the name of his twin brother's murderer. Hungry for vengeance, he accepts a job that will place him in the killer's orbit . . . and tantalizingly close to Kayla Shaw. The cold-blooded international criminal responsible for Rand's brother's death has targeted Kayla as his next victim—and only Rand can stop him from killing again. Suspicious of each other, needing each other, they are two against the world as the violence of the past erupts in the present. And now innocence alone will not be enough to keep Kayla Shaw alive. . . . Rand McCee just wants to be able to lose himself in his painting. After his twin brother is shot before his eyes while on a scouting mission for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can't go. He has finally come to terms with the fact that he will never be able to find the man who shot his twin, the man known as The Siberian. Kayla Shaw is an Arizona banker. Little does she realize that as she has been helping a rich socialite plan how to finance an art exhibition she has been unwittingly caught up in a web of lies and money laundering. When her employer tries to buy her silence, she realizes that she is in way over her head, with no way out. Equally suspicious of and attracted to each other, Rand and Kayla must work together to stop the Siberian before they both wind up in jail - or the grave.