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Lucy McFadden is desperate to get a closer look at the volcano, the Heart of Timbalo, or H.O.T. Mountain. But she runs into a serious roadblock—albeit a very sexy one—in the form of reclusive billionaire Carson Gray. Carson is desperate himself. He has worked for years on a secret project that is now under a dangerous threat. He doesn’t believe that Lucy’s sudden appearance is coincidental, which means he must keep a very close eye on her and employ all the dirty tricks he knows to find out just who she is. But the beautiful Lucy McFadden is not without her own tricks—or secrets….
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.
