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She's the perfect pawn…
Covert CIA specialist David Martin has
his orders. Keep a terrorist cell from using Terri Barnhart as
leverage to get their hands on a nearly perfected biotech weapon.
Falling for her could compromise his mission and turn the dedicated
nurse into a moving target.
With her brother off the radar for
three months, Terri fears the worst. Having the sexy Southerner to
lean on helps—except the hospital's new staff member isn't what he
seems. To survive, she'll have to trust David with her life—trusting
him with her heart is something else entirely.
Excerpt from Her
Undercover Defender
David Martin had the training pool to
himself. The fading sunlight filtered through the windows near the
ceiling, casting long pale slashes across the deck. While other
people finished paperwork or made dinner plans, he soaked up the
peace and quiet of the water. It was his sanctuary, the one place he
could always get away from any worries. The only thing better would
be time out on the ocean—or under it. He hadn’t had a real dive
in months, and since his boat was stored closer to his family, in
Georgia, the pool would have to suffice for today.
He pushed his body through a freestyle
sprint the length of the pool, filled his lungs on the turn and then
dove deep, dolphin-kicking the return lap on that single breath. He
repeated the process until the timer on his watch went off. Switching
to backstroke, he let his body cool down. As his lungs recovered, his
mind drifted over the implications of his upcoming meeting with his
boss, Director Thomas Casey.
The brief email had bordered on
cryptic, which wasn’t unusual considering the unique covert
operations team he’d joined two years ago. One specific phrase in
the email had brought David down to swim and think: lifetime
assignment.
He understood commitment as it
pertained to career, family and country, having completed his
education and given six years to the Coast Guard. Unfortunately, the
phrase reminded him too much of the matchmaking his three oldest
sisters kept attempting on his behalf. They used words like
stability, comfort, nieces and nephews.
As if their own kids didn’t keep everyone busy enough. Curse of
being the youngest and the only boy in a big Southern family, he
thought. He loved them all and appreciated the buffer of distance his
skills and career choices had given him. The Coast Guard had been a
smart fit, and not even his sisters had ever worked up the nerve to
argue about his professional dedication. Now, believing he worked a
normal day job in DC, they manipulated blind dates and chance
meetings every time he was home, hoping to reel him back in and
settle him down near the family home.
They seemed impervious to his personal
timetable. At thirty, he wasn’t ready to do the wife and kids
thing. He liked the excitement and the challenge of being a
Specialist on Thomas Casey’s elite team. While he understood that
going out and making a difference in the world didn’t rule out
relationships—plenty of Specialists had personal lives—it sure
put a damper on permanence. He wasn’t ready for that. Not yet.
There was plenty of time to find the right woman.
Lifetime assignment. The two
words echoed through his head as his strokes sliced through the
water. What kind of threat had Director Casey taking that kind of
measure?
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~Regan
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