The first of Lora Leigh's Elite Ops series, Wild Card is the story of Nathan Malone a super secret seal who is crazy about his young wife Sabela. A couple of years after they marry Nathan is taken hostage on a mission gone wrong. His captors pump him full of a drug called Whores Dust. Two years later he is rescued and signs on with the Elite Ops which is run by his uncle Jordan Malone. The Elite Ops are a secret agency doing black ops when no one else can do them. Nathan's wife Sabela thinks he is dead. Six years after his 'death' Nathan Malone now known as Noah Blake walks back into Sabela's life as one of her employees. He has come to protect her from a threat she knows nothing about. Sabela is suspicious of Noah Blake but her feelings are re-awakened and so is her guilt for feeling passion for someone other than her husband.