SYNOPSIS:
At a benefit dinner, community activist Maria Cervantes overhears two men plotting a terrorist attack that could rock Miami to its core. But before she can alert authorities, she’s almost killed in a massive explosion—and wakes up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. As the sole survivor of the attack, she is now a person of interest to the NSA—and especially to Agent Cade O’Reilly. Because Maria is the one woman Cade has never been able to forget.
Years ago, they were closer than either was willing to admit—until Cade disappeared when Maria needed him most. Now he’s sticking by her, whether she likes it or not. Because the memories locked inside her mind could hold vital clues to the next attack. Because terrorists want her dead—and because he never wants to let her go again.
EXCERPT:
He rolled his shoulders once as he pulled down her quiet street. He needed to figure out what she knew and then get on with his job. Volunteering to talk to her had been a colossal mistake, because with her it was impossible to keep his emotions in check. As he neared her driveway, he dreaded waking her up.
When she started making frightened moans in her sleep, his protective instincts went into overdrive. He quickly pulled into her driveway and parked. Her head moved to the side so that it was tilted up toward him and her face was scrunched, as if she was concentrating. And she kept making those little sounds that pierced right through him.
He wanted to reach out and wake her up to comfort her, but paused, trying to figure out what the fuck was wrong with him. Before he had to make that decision, her eyes popped open and for one moment he saw stark fear shining in them. It was so visceral, her eyes almost glazed over as if she wasn’t seeing him, but something or someone else.
Then she blinked and looked at him in confusion. Her breathing was erratic as she looked around the front seat, gathering her bearings; then she turned back to him. Those amber eyes were clear again.
“Are you okay?” he asked quietly, unable to stop himself from reaching out and tucking a wayward strand of her dark hair behind her ear. His fingers brushed her soft cheek and for just a moment she leaned into his hand before shaking herself and pulling back. He immediately missed the contact.
“I don’t know. I think I must have been dreaming. I was running from something. Or to something. Then there was . . . absolute hell. Just fire and heat and destruction everywhere.” Her pretty mouth pulled into a thin line as understanding settled into her gaze. “It had to be the explosion, right? I’m remembering what I saw, aren’t I?”
Cade nodded slowly. “It’s possible.” He’d had enough nightmares of his own from previous missions with the NSA and when he’d been in the Corps to know that. Sometimes shit came back that he’d never wanted to see in the first place.
She wrapped her arms around herself and rubbed her hands up and down her upper arms as if she was cold. “I’m sorry I fell asleep.” He started to respond when an insistent buzzing sounded. Either a text or she’d turned her phone to vibrate and someone was calling.
He’d heard it go off a few times but hadn’t wanted to wake her up. Whoever it was, he’d doubted they couldn’t wait the twenty minutes it took to get to her one-and-a-half-story bungalow-style home.
Blinking away her sleep, she shook her head and reached down to the floorboard where her small bag was. She fished her phone out and started scrolling through messages. He watched as her frown deepened and she kept swiping her thumb and finger across the touch screen.
“What is it?”
“I have half a dozen texts from my aunt and dad. My aunt took over like she always does and scheduled my mom’s funeral for tomorrow. What the hell is she thinking?” she muttered. Maria rubbed a hand over her face, looking exhausted and close to breaking down again.
“Her sister or his?” he asked, remembering what she’d told him about her family through e-mails.
“Hers.” She met his gaze, and the pain he saw in the dark depths sliced through him.
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Katie Reus is the New York Times, USA Today, & IndieReader bestselling author of the Red Stone Security series, the Moon Shifter series and the Deadly Ops series. She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it. However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense.
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