Paranormal Special Operations' agent and theatre actress Nicole Smith has never bought into the third-date rule, which says in polite society that's the time for a couple to advance sexually. But her relationship with Niles Garfield, who recently arrived from a parallel dimension, is testing her beliefs. Nicole's life is a litany of trauma and tragedy, from the deaths of her parents and roommate to her long, grueling battle to bring her father's killers to justice. As the Point Man, Niles led his platoon, 46 people, into a death-trap. While they are opposites on the surface, they are bonded by the trauma underneath. And this bond grows stronger and stronger as they test the validity of the third-date rule. Oh, and they get attacked by robots from another dimension on a highway battle in downstate Illinois. After all, this is Special Operations!