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Never get personally involved in a story. For star reporter Tory Patton, that was the cardinal rule of TV news. But when a fellow journalist and Athena Academy graduate was taken hostage in a war zone — and a rival network broke the story — Tory took it very personally, giving up the safety of her anchor desk to investigate in the field.The assignment was risky from the start, including a shocking complication: Tory's unexpected pregnancy. With her stubborn, covert-agent lover begging her to go home and her questions stirring up a hornet's nest, Tory suddenly faced reporting a story that could make her career but cost her everything she loved.