(MSRP: 14.9900)
Former Delta Force operator Rhys Sinclair defied the odds by recovering from a traumatic brain injury that should have killed him. Given the chance to repay the beautiful doctor who saved his life by guarding hers, he can’t say no--even if it means facing an unknown threat from the cunning terrorist his CIA-sanctioned team had been hunting in Afghanistan. The catch is, she can't know about it without blowing their cover.
Trauma surgeon Neveah Adams is finally putting her life back together after her horrific experience in Afghanistan. Giving the keynote speech at a medical conference in Vancouver is her starting point. With Rhys there to watch over her she feels safe for the first time in months, and her biggest problem is trying to hide her intense feelings for him.
But Rhys knows something Neveah doesn’t. The terrorist who targeted her in Kabul is coming after her again, and he’s relentless enough to ensure all his past mistakes are erased with one final strike. Now that the nightmare from her past has resurfaced, Neveah has no choice but to put her trust in the one man who has the ability to break her heart, never knowing an assassin is closer than they realize.
(Pages 348) Spicy
Excerpt:
When Rhys turned around and locked his navy gaze on hers, the little oxygen remaining in Nev’s lungs disappeared.
Her stomach flipped like she’d just dropped three floors in a runaway elevator. Rhys had never looked at her like this. Everything about him radiated erotic promise.
He closed the remaining distance separating them and stopped in front of her, then took her hands in his. The simple contact jolted deep in her womb. Nev craned her neck back to meet his eyes, and the sheer desire revealed there stunned a gasp out of her. Rhys’s expression made her think he wanted to eat her alive. When he tugged her to her feet, she obeyed without a thought, riveted by his focused expression.
Before she had time to wonder what he would do, he slid his hands up over the intensely sensitive skin of her inner arms and over her shoulders, up her throat to her face. The seductive touch was completely at odds with the molten heat blazing from his eyes, and set her heart pounding.
She’d sensed this in him, this volcanic heat beneath the icy exterior he showed the rest of the world. This was the real man beneath the cool façade.
