A Father's Desperate Rescue
The latest chapter in the Man on a Mission series spotlights a film star in his darkest drama yet.Widower Dirk DeWinter is a screen legend, but his favorite role is caring for his twin toddlers. So when his daughters are kidnapped while he's on location in Hong Kong, the desperate dad enlists the help of private investigator Mei-li Moore to track them down. But digging up secrets from Dirk’s past unleashes something more potent—and dangerous—than either of them ever expected.Mei-li knows Dirk is off-limits, both professionally and emotionally, still she can’t help but fall for the doting father. As their mission threatens to unravel, will they risk their hearts and lives to save the twins—and each other?
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The latest chapter in the Man on a Mission series spotlights a film star in his darkest drama yet.
Widower Dirk DeWinter is a screen legend, but his favorite role is caring for his twin toddlers. So when his daughters are kidnapped while heâs on location in Hong Kong, the desperate dad enlists the help of private investigator Mei-li Moore to track them down. But digging up secrets from Dirkâs past unleashes something more potentâand dangerousâthan either of them ever expected.
Mei-li knows Dirk is off-limits, both professionally and emotionally, yet she still canât help but fall for the doting father. As their mission threatens to unravel, will they risk their hearts and lives to save the twinsâand each other?
Dirkâs smile faded, replaced by an expression Mei-li had trouble reading at first. Then it came to her. Desolation. The way a man might look if all hope and light and faith had been extinguished. âYouâre withdrawing from the case?â
âNot at all,â she reassured him. âIâm still willing to give it my best shot. But I wonât lie to youâIâll be relying more on gut instinct than on past experience. If you still want me on the caseâ¦â
He didnât hesitate. âI want you on the case.â
âThen Iâm in, a hundred percent.â
He frowned suddenly. âIs that what youâre going to say in front of Vanessa and Chet? That you donât have any experience in cases like this?â
She nodded. âIf theyâre involved, the more I downplay my credentials, the less likely theyâll worry about what I might uncover. The less worried they are about me, the more likely theyâll let something slipâ¦assuming there is something for them to let slip. See what I mean?â
Dirkâs eyes warmed with admiration. âDamn, youâre good.â
Suddenly there was something more in his eyes, his face, something Mei-li responded to instinctively, and all at once she could hardly breathe.
Be sure to check out the previous books in this exciting miniseries.
Man on a Mission: These heroes, working at home and overseas, will do anything for justice, honorâ¦and love.
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When I wrote Kingâs Ransom, part of my Man on a Mission miniseries, Dirk DeWinter, movie star extraordinaire, threatened to hijack the story from King Andre Alexei IV of Zakharânot an easy thing to do with an alpha male like Andre. So I knew I would have to write Dirkâs story, especially since heartbroken readers begged for Dirk to have his own happily-ever-after ending.
Now Dirk is back, a man at the top of his game professionally. But personally? His life is a shambles. His beloved wife of twelve years is dead, and the twin daughters she gave him before she died are a constant reminder of the worst day of his life.
Itâs not until his daughters, Linden and Laurel, are kidnapped while Dirk is on location in Hong Kong filming a movie that he realizes keeping them at an emotional distance hasnât protected them from the sins of his past. Heâll do anythingâeven trade his own lifeâto rescue them.
Enter Mei-li Moore, private investigator and hostage negotiator. Dirk is more than willing to pay the ransomâno matter how highâuntil he learns ransom isnât the true motive. Can Mei-li help Dirk bring his daughters safely home in A Fatherâs Desperate Rescue, and at the same time rescue Dirk himself by breaking through the concrete shell guarding his bruised and battered heart?
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Amelia Autin
Award-winning author AMELIA AUTIN is an inveterate reader who canât bear to put a good book downâ¦or part with it. Sheâs a longtime member of Romance Writers of America (RWA), and served three years as its treasurer. Amelia resides with her PhD engineer husband in quiet Vail, Arizona, where they can see the stars at night and have a âmillion-dollar viewâ of the Rincon Mountains from their backyard.
For Andrew Marvell, who wrote, âThe graveâs
a fine and private place. But none, I think, do there embrace.â For my mother, Lorraine Ruby Leydecker Autin, who set my feet on the path, and who made my week when she said I made her cry with one of my books. And for Vincentâ¦always.
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Terrell Blackwood was picked up by a limousine and driver when he walked out of prison a semifree man on the second day of the New Year, experiencing two luxuries heâd once taken for granted. Not just the luxury of freedom to walk in the open air, but the luxury to once again enjoy the best that his money could buy.
His millions had availed him little while in prison...other than to have five yearsâfor bribing three prison guardsâtacked onto his two concurrent fifteen-to-life sentences for attempted murder. At least, thatâs what the self-righteous prosecutor had called it when Terrell had gone to trial all those years ago, what the pompous judge had called it when passing sentence. Attempted murder. Terrell had called it attempted justice. Justice that had not been meted out to the man whoâd murdered Terrellâs only child, or to the woman whose lies on the witness stand had gotten the man off.
