Penelope has always been a 'good girl'. Never colored outside the lines. Never didanything to rock the boat. But when her ex-boyfriend blows back into town, she decides to take a ride on the wild side with a sexy stranger who has 'bad boy' written all over his rock hard body. He's dangerous, smoking hot, and more than willing to give her what she wants-a night of uninhibited pleasure. But she could never fall in love with a military man, not with the pain of her past. Navy SEAL Eli is only too happy to help the gorgeous Penelope make her ex jealous. When he's not on a black ops mission, he takes his pleasure where he can find it. What he didn'tcount on was that a single night would awaken a forbidden craving for a woman and a life that can never be his. How can they hope for a future together when honor, duty and history work together to tear them apart?