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Medusa Project
Series · 8 books · 2005-2010

Books in series

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#1

The Medusa Project

2005

She’s tasked with forming the first all-female Special Forces Team. He’s tasked with training them—and seeing to it they fail. She’s determined to prove women can keep up with the big boys, and he’s determined to break her—if she doesn’t break his heart first. As attraction explodes between Vanessa Blake and Jack Scatalone they have got to get this blazing heat between them under control. But, as events throw them together in a life-or-death race to find a missing team member, control is the last thing on their minds… Cindy Dees is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 novels and creator/executive producer of an upcoming thriller television series. She draws upon her experience as a U. S. Air Force pilot to create intense suspense and love on the edge of 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
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Medusa Rising

2005

SHE'S A DOCTOR. A HEALER. CAN SHE KILL IN THE NAME OF GOOD?Dr. Aleesha Gautier had asked herself that question many times since joining the Medusa Project, the United States' first all-woman Special Ops team. Could she take lives—even to protect national security—when her every instinct screamed to save them?Her first official mission—taking back a hijacked cruise ship—brought her face-to-face with her greatest fear: bad guys she would have to kill to save innocent lives. And one hijacker who might not be what he appeared. The mission could only end in death—unless Aleesha's choice to trust the wrong man was right....
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The Medusa Game

2006

She'd pushed beyond her family's traditions because Isabella Torres, intel analyst and soldier, had been driven to succeed—especially as part of the first all-female Special Ops unit, the Medusas. She'd survived training on sheer guts. Now her gut was telling her she belonged at the winter games, guarding a controversial young ice skater from terrorists—and from a larger, more sinister plot that could turn an athletic neutral zone into a battlefield. Her gut also said her sexy new boss would eventually realize an all-female detail could handle this operation. For this mission, her gut instinct was pitted against enemies from East and West…. Let the games begin.
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The Medusa Prophecy

2007

Code named Python, Karen Tucker is the beautiful brawn behind the Medusas, the first all-female Special Forces team. When they're sent on an arctic training mission with a Norwegian team, it's Karen's strength that makes the men, especially Lieutenant Anders Larson, sit up and take notice. But before Karen and Anders can find out if their fiery rivalry is more than just competitive spirit, the team uncovers a secret drug lab. Exposed to a deadly mind-altering drug, Karen struggles to do her job, stay alive—and remain sane enough not to kill her partners….
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The Medusa Affair

2007

After an accident allowed surgeons to reconstruct her facewith Barbie in mind, Misty Cordell focused on proving toherself she's much more than a pretty face, even joining theMedusas, the first all-female Special Forces team. But whenshe saves a handsome pilot, it's a good thing she knows thatlooks can be deceiving. Because Gregorii Harkov isn't whohe says he is. As Greg and Misty run for their lives from an unknownenemy, they hardly know whether to trust one another, let alone anyone else. Can they find their way throughthe layers of deception to the only truth that matters?
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The Medusa Seduction

2007

"I need you to follow me." The tall stranger whispered to her from the shadows. And just like that, Sophie Giovanni was tapped for a top-secret mission with innocent lives at stake. Brian Riley believed she possessed the knowledge to smoke out a deadly terrorist—all she had to do was trust the handsome Special Forces soldier with her life. Brian needed Sophie. But training her in the art of covert commando warfare was proving more challenging than he'd anticipated. He swore nothing would compromise this operation…until passion caught him by surprise. Now keeping Sophie safe was his only mission—no matter what the cost to his heart or life.
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The Medusa Proposition

2010

She’s a journalist by day, a Medusa by night. He's a rich businessman and despises journalists. It’s love and hate at first sight for these two when a body washes up on a beach and throws them together in a deadly confrontation with an assassin out to kill them both. As their worlds collide and killers close in on them, can they contain the incendiary attraction threatening to consume them both? Cindy Dees is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 novels and creator/executive producer of an upcoming thriller television series. She draws upon her experience as a U. S. Air Force pilot to create taut suspense and love on the edge of 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
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Medusa's Sheik

2010

Casey Chandler is a Special Forces operative working under cover. Not a harem girl swept off her feet by some prince. But the way her body reacts to Hakim El Aran, it clearly didn't get that memo. To top it off, Medusa's intelligence is certain that El Haran Industries is close to closing a weapons deal, and it's her assignment to stop it. No matter what. Hakim El Aran lives life in a gilded cage, his family blackmailed by terrorists...until an exotic, mysterious woman saves his life. Cassandra is more than a match for the banker-playboy. Turns out she has to keep him alive only long enough to catch the terrorists. Can he convince her their attraction is worth fighting for?

Author

Cindy Dees
Cindy Dees
Author · 63 books

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.

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