Fire and Ice

TALK ABOUT LOST IN TRANSLATION... In the wake of a failed love affair, brainy beauty Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo.

She's expecting to cry on her sister Summer's shoulder, then spend a couple months blowing off steam in Japan.

Instead, she's snatched away on the back of a motorcycle, narrowly avoiding a grisly execution attempt meant for her sister and brother-in-law.

Her rescuer is Reno, the Committee's most unpredictable agent.

They'd met once before and the attraction was odd--tattooed Yakuza punk meets leggy California egghead--but electric.

Now Reno and Jilly are pawns in a deadly tangle of assassination attempts, kidnappings and prisoner swaps that could put their steamy partnership on ice.