Blurb:
Commander Asher Rainer is tough as nails. Working with an
undercover Black Ops group sanctioned by the U.S. Government—Project
R.O.O.T—his team is sent to obtain reconnaissance on a village suspected of
illegal activity before the next scheduled United Nation conference. However,
the team encounters a soft cell terrorist group hellbent on destruction, and in
search of weapons grade uranium. To make matters worse, the terrorists are
funded by a U.S. backed contingency. His only eyewitnesses to the crimes
committed by the paramilitary group is Dr. Rae Kenzie and one of the group’s
members, Joseph Franks.
Rae Kenzie, a physician with Doctors Without Borders, is
currently on rotation in South America. What should’ve been a routine
inspection by the local guerilla army turns into a bloodbath. Without any
consideration to her own wellbeing, Rae rushes to protect the village children
from certain death—unwittingly thrusting herself, and them, into the middle an
ongoing power struggle. Rae has to trust someone with what she knows, but it
doesn’t mean she has to like them—even if she finds Commander Asher Raines devilishly
handsome.
Asher has no time for love. His dedication is to his team,
his country, and protecting the innocent before all else. But when the heart
desires what it shouldn’t, will one night with Rae be enough to satisfy his
baser needs?
Or will he be the one to break all the rules?
Excerpt:
Crack! The first shot rang out, followed by another. The screams of
frightened children, along with the adults, rent the air. She hurried to get
them to the safe room below ground. “Hurry.” She glanced over her shoulder and
watched through the window as the men began shooting each other, which made no
sense at all. When standing at the door to hurry more people into the clinic,
she saw more men coming down out of the hills in front of them, their uniforms
the same as those the guerillas wore. The baby in her arms squealed and cried
out, drawing the attention of one of the men.
His
eyes narrowed as a slow, devious grin twisted his features. He raised his gun,
pointing it at her. Her heart lodged in her throat. She couldn't move. She
stared down the barrel of his long rifle, her death becoming an inevitable
situation.
None
of the stuff people say in the movies happened. Her life didn't flash in front
of her eyes. She didn't have a chance to lament about not talking to her mother
last weekend when she said she'd call home, but overslept.
Thwack! The man's body fell forward. She
expected to see another person behind him; however, no one was there. She
muffled her relieved cry and hustled Isabella to the back room. After opening
the trap door in the floor, she climbed in with the children. “Stay in the
darkness.”
She
huddled them together as the gunfire continued to ring out around them. At some
point, someone would come looking for them. Then
what? She didn't know. She didn't want to think about it right now. She
needed to keep the children quiet. Their parents had put their lives on the
line to help her, and she had a duty to protect them.
Maria
flipped on the light of her phone. Juan sat beside her, his little body shaking
as the ravages of the infection worked through him. She could only hope they
wouldn't be down there long so she could get him back on the antibiotics and
the pain meds. Beto lay sleeping in her arms while Isabella held her arm to her
chest. Shit, the cast. She must have
dropped it during the commotion. When they got out of there—if they got out of
there—she'd put the cast on her arm and give her a small dose of pain medicine.
It was the least she could do after dragging her away from her mom.
For
now, she was thankful no one made a sound, which also broke her heart. These
children, even the youngest of them, already knew what to expect when
these...men showed up to deal with whatever was going on out there. How did
anyone live like this? Then she reminded herself of the children in Aleppo,
dying in bombings day in and day out. The youngest had been four months old.
She
gathered Isabella to her side and put a protective arm around her. They had
provisions if they needed them. They could hold out. She wouldn't give up the
kids without a fight. She'd die for them. It was part of the job and part of
how her parents raised her. Save those weaker than she was. Give them a chance
to thrive and survive.
“It'll
all be over soon and we can all go home.” But what home would be left? She
didn't know where their parents had gone, or if they'd survived. “You're safe.
I will not let anything happen to you.”
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