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On vacation on Hawai'i’s Big Island, retired Navy SEAL Raider Torres thought he'd left the bedlam of his military life behind. But when Kilauea erupts, and Raider is pressed into service as a first responder, his itch for action returns with a vengeance. What he never expected was to run into his ex-wife in the chaos. Since her partner was slain on the job, Piper Halloway has been on desperate quest for justice. While undercover, she’s approached by the man responsible, she agrees to be driver in a dangerous robbery. An unfortunate twist of fate leads her to seek Raider’s help. Their tangled past haunts them as they navigate a landscape of betrayal and danger. Against a volcanic eruption, the stakes escalate until their lives hang in the balance. When the heist goes wrong, the couple find themselves thrust into a frantic race for survival, where every decision could mean life or death. Can they outwit their pursuers and salvage a second chance at love, or will their past sins cause them to go down in flames?
Author
I grew up in a house filled with books and readers. Some of my fondest memories are of reading in the same room with my mother and sisters, arguing about whose turn it was to make tea. No one wanted to put their book down! I was introduced to romance because of my mom’s habit of leaving books all over the house. One day I picked one up. I still remember the cover. It was a Harlequin by Janet Daily. Little did I know at the time that it would set the stage for my future. I went on to discover mystery novels. Agatha Christie was my favorite. And then suspense with Wilber Smith and Ian Fleming. I loved the thought of combining my favorite genres, and during high school, I attempted to write my first romantic suspense novel. I wrote the first four chapters and then exams happened and that was the end of that. I desperately hope that book died a quiet death somewhere in a computer recycling facility. A few years later, (okay, quite a few) after two degrees, a husband and two kids, I attended a workshop in Tuscany that lit that spark for writing again. I have been pounding the keyboard ever since here in New Jersey, where I live with my children—who are thrilled with my writing as it means they get to eat more pizza—and my very supportive husband.
