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As the nation’s youngest virologist and hematologist, Captain Sophia Perry has always been one step ahead of her peers. But there’s one thing she can’t beat—cancer. She wants to make a difference in the time she has left, so when she’s sent to investigate a breakout at a Syrian refugee camp, she goes, saying nothing of her diagnosis. But saving the masses isn’t easy when the man tasked to protect her is so irresistible.
Communications Sergeant Connor Button is back on active duty after a deadly explosion, but he doesn’t feel whole again until he meets Sophia. Assigned to keep her safe, he’s prepared to die for her, but for the first time in months he truly wants to live—if only she wasn’t so determined to put them both in danger.
With a secret to keep and nothing to lose, Sophia is determined to find the source of the breakout at any cost. Violent attacks on the camp convince her that someone wants her to pay dearly. But as Sophia’s health deteriorates, Connor must find a way to help her defeat her enemies before her body defeats her.
Security is mostly
a superstition ~ Helen Keller
Chapter
One
It had taken him three airplanes and
over twenty-six hours to travel more than seven thousand miles, and
now he was going to have to kill someone.
Ten feet from his
room in the Navy hotel at the American Naval base in Bahrain.
All Special Forces
Communications Sergeant Connor Button wanted was to find a bed and
crash for a few hours.
What he did not
need was witnessing some idiot striking out with a hot blonde and not
taking it well.
She’d just
removed his hand from her waist.
The man put it on
her shoulder and tried to bring her closer. “Aw, come on,
sweetheart.”
She slid away, her
voice clear across the short distance. “No.”
Okay, dude, time
to retreat. Only, the guy didn’t. He grabbed her by the back of
the neck, hard enough to make her gasp in pain, and leaned down, his
mouth aimed for hers.
She slapped the
moron, but he didn’t get that hint either, just grabbed her hand
and twisted it behind her back.
Con had to make
himself stand still for a second. One second, so he could throttle
back the instinct to beat the stupid fuck to death.
Fine. His
jaw flexed. He wouldn’t kill the asshole, but he could hurt him
real bad.
Con dropped his
duffel on the floor and stomped toward the woman and the moron whose
arm he was about to break.
Into several
pieces.
Small ones.
The stomping got
the moron’s attention. He glanced up, saw Con coming and his eyes
went wide. He let go of the woman so fast she wobbled off balance and
fell to the floor. Con stopped to help her while the moron ran like a
track star down the hall and around a corner.
Good call,
asshole.
Con bent down and
offered his hand to the woman. “Are you okay?”
Her head jerked up
and she stared at him with eyes that didn’t miss a thing. She
scooted away, leaving his hand hanging in the air, then stood. Her
shoulders went back and her chin rose.
He almost smiled.
She was so not interested in another man getting all up in her
business. He’d make sure she was all right, then he’d back off.
“Ma’am, did he
hurt you?”
“I’m fine,”
she said, retreating a step.
Blue-green eyes
stood out in a face framed by white-blond hair hanging in a sheet
down to the middle of her back. She was also stacked, though she
wasn’t showing it off. She was following military clothing
requirements, wearing long pants and a collared shirt one size too
big, buttoned up to her neck. An asshole had just tried to sexually
assault her, but Con would bet a year’s pay that had he not come
along, the moron would have had his hands full with a pissed-off
female trying to smash his balls into paste.
He glanced down.
Her mouth was
pressed into a thin angry line, but her hands were shaking.
For the first time
in months something other than anger or despair slammed into him.
He knew just how
she felt. Hyped up on adrenaline and looking for a target.
It surprised him so
much he opened his mouth to make some inane comment or other to show
her he was no threat, but she raised a hand to stop him.
She spoke a quick,
firm “Thank you.” And then she was gone, inside the room closest
to her. The click of the lock being engaged echoed down the hall.
Author
Biography
Julie Rowe’s first career as a medical lab technologist in Canada took her to the North West Territories and northern Alberta, where she still resides. She loves to include medical details in her romance novels, but admits she’ll never be able to write about all her medical experiences because, “Fiction has to be believable”. Julie writes contemporary and historical medical romance, fun romantic suspense and military romance. Her most recent titles are the MEN OF ACTION boxed set and VIRAL JUSTICE book #3 of the Biological Response Team series. You can find her at www.julieroweauthor.com , on Twitter @julieroweauthor or at her Facebook page: www.facebook.com/JulieRoweAuthor
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