Zach Taylor and Claudia Stuart hate each other. Or do they? A five-year-long feud has kept them at arm's length, though each of them feels more than a little curiosity about the other. When a night of hard drinking and gambling leads to a shared bed - and a Vegas marriage - the two are forced to confront their feelings head on.

When it becomes necessary to maintain their charade of a marriage in order to discover the identity of a killer, neither Zach nor Claudia knows where it all will end.

Can passion tear down the wall between them before a power-hungry madman kills them both?