(Formerly published in print by Harlequin American.) Because it's a dangerous world and heroes are in short supply. Third in the series of books featuring the PAX anti-terrorist organization, a collection of scholars and outlaws, renegades and geek geniuses, who risk their lives on a daily basis to keep the world safe. Max Brody owns a down-on-its-luck airstrip in central New Jersey. He has no wife, no kids, no money, and no prospects. If things keep going this way, pretty soon he won't even have a roof over his head. So when his old friend (and PAX legend) Ryder O'Neal shows up one afternoon and asks for five years of his life, Max figures he has nothing to lose. Kelly Madison has spent most of her life bailing her ne'er-do-well superstar father out of trouble. This time, however, Sean Ryan has unwittingly become involved in a terrorist plot that threatens millions of innocent people. PAX has waited five years to bring down the terrorists. Max, in his alias as a Brazilian billionaire, must get close to Kelly so she can lead the ultra-secret organization to her missing father, who just may be their last best hope to prevent a global tragedy. But not even that PAX figured on Max and Kelly falling in love—or falling deeper into the kind of danger that could bring the world to its knees. The PAX books in order: PLAYING FOR TIME HONEYMOON HOTEL A FINE MADNESS ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. OPERATION: HUSBAND OPERATION: BABY