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They call him a trouble magnet. If something bad is going to happen, former Navy SEAL Ian McCloud is probably there already. At the moment, he’s investigating a rogue scientist with a penchant for nasty viruses…what could go wrong? They call her a maverick. CIA operative, Piper Roth, is the last kind of trouble Ian wants or needs. She’s currently tracking a homegrown separatist group bent on giving Uncle Sam a bloody nose, and she’s out to prove she can run with the big boys. This mission will make her career…as long as Ian McCloud stays out of her way. But when their investigations collide, sparks fly and desire explodes between them. As they maneuver to one-up each other, their smoking-hot one-night-stand spells Trouble with a capital T for both of them. Now Ian and Piper must put aside their fiery attraction and join forces to stop a diabolical terrorist attack that aims to unleash a series of hellish attacks on an unsuspecting American city. Their lives, and those of thousands of civilians, are at stake as they race to stop disaster, balanced on a razor’s edge between love and danger. "Lovers of Dees’ high-stakes, fast-paced action will find exponentially increasing tension in each scene and pulse-pounding adventure that will keep readers enthralled." — RT Book Club Reviews "Dees blends action and intrigue with deft skill, keeping readers enthralled until the final secret is unveiled and the last chase winds down." — RT Book Reviews on Close Pursuit "Finally! Women with a killer instinct for self-preservation…highly, hotly, recommended!" — M Hartsell, on Edge of Danger
Author
Cindy Dees started flying airplanes while sitting in her dad’s lap at the age of three and got a pilot’s license before she got a driver’s license. At age fifteen, she dropped out of high school and left the horse farm in Michigan where she grew up to attend the University of Michigan. After earning a degree in Russian and East European studies, she joined the U.S. Air Force and became the youngest female pilot in the history of the Air Force. She flew supersonic jets, VIP airlift and the “C-5” Galaxy, the world’s largest airplane. She also worked part-time gathering intelligence. During her military career, she traveled to forty countries on five continents, was detained by the KGB and East German secret police, she got shot at, flew in the first Gulf War, met her husband and amassed a lifetime’s worth of war stories. Her hobbies include professional Middle Eastern dancing, Japanese gardening and medieval reenacting. She started writing on a one-dollar bet with her mother and was thrilled to win that bet with the publication of her first book in 2001.
