Brody "Gunner" Winchester is a man who doesn't like change. When Rescue Team Nine brings in a new team member, he is furious. Especially when he finds out it's a woman. Faith "Wildcat" Lenzi is the new negotiator, and it's not long before she butts heads with the team's most ornery soldier. A town is thrown into uproar when a school is taken over by a man determined to get revenge. When Wildcat decides to break protocol and enter the building as a number one hostage, Gunner must lay his feelings aside to help her. Will Wildcat be able to make the deal of her life? Is there more at stake than Gunner realizes ... such as his heart?