(MSRP: 14.9900)
Targeted by a terrorist cell, Bryn McAllister survives a bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut only to be left to die in a desert cellar. When she is rescued by Navy SEAL Lieutenant Declan McCabe and his team, Bryn must rely on the handsome officer to get her to safety. But just when she thinks the nightmare is over, family friend and legendary CIA operative Luke Hutchinson recruits her and McCabe to help track down the terrorist mastermind responsible for the attack.
With Bryn determined to see the terrorist brought to justice, Dec joins up to protect her, prepared to do whatever it takes to keep her safe during their dangerous mission. Battling the explosive attraction between them, Dec fights to keep his distance from her so he can do his job and keep her alive. But when plans falls apart and Bryn is captured, he must make the agonizing choice between his duty as a SEAL and the life of the woman he loves.
(Pages 348) Spicy
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Her lungs burned, her thigh muscles straining under the burst of adrenaline shooting through her veins.
Two soldiers jumped out of the chopper with their rifles up, and her heart gave a great leap of fear. She almost stopped, but remembered Dec’s warning and kept sprinting. The men fired past her, the muzzles of their guns spewing fire in the darkness. The bullets sang as they whizzed past her, some close enough she felt their heat. Was Dec still out there behind her?
Halfway there. Keep running.
One of the soldiers motioned with his arm, waving it toward the ground as she drew closer. Don’t stop! Keep going. He was yelling something, but she couldn’t hear him over the rotors. What was he saying?
His arm kept moving, and as she drew nearer, she saw the urgency on his face, saw his mouth move.
“G-e-t d-o-o-w-n!”
Terror froze her. Her heart rang in her ears. Everything morphed into slow motion. Instinctively covering her head with her arms, she dove. A blast exploded behind her, rendering her blind and deaf. She plowed into the ground as sharp and hot objects peppered her arm and back, like she’d been stung by a swarm of angry bees.
Disoriented, terrified, she lurched up onto her knees, saw the soldier from the helicopter running flat out toward her. The wounds burned like hellfire, and something warm was dripping over her skin. Blood. Her blood.
Pushing to her feet, she staggered a step, then fell flat. She scrambled up again, determined not to die out here in the desert when she was so close to safety.
