Cody Walker's Woman
Working undercover with the last man she should trust…Rescuing a "civilian" blew his latest undercover op–but when Special Agent Cody Walker next met the damsel in distress, he was astonished to discover she was a fellow agent! Now they are assigned to the same task force to track down a terrorist cell that has a personal connection to Cody's past….While Keira is grateful to Cody, she's determined to prove she can handle herself professionally. But their sizzling chemistry is making it hard to keep things quiet. And as they hunt down the would-be terrorists, they are getting closer–and more personal–than ever….
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Working undercover with the last man she should trustâ¦
Rescuing a âcivilianâ blew his latest undercover opâbut when Special Agent Cody Walker next met the damsel in distress, he was astonished to discover she was a fellow agent! Now they are assigned to the same task force to track down a terrorist cell that has a personal connection to Codyâs pastâ¦.
While Keira is grateful to Cody, sheâs determined to prove she can handle herself professionally. But their sizzling chemistry is making it hard to keep things quiet. And as they hunt down the would-be terrorists, they are getting closerâand more personalâthan everâ¦.
âWhat do you think youâre doing?â
âKissing you again.â He didnât give her a chance to escape.
She resisted at first but then surrendered.
Desire flooded him as her body softened against his. The yearning, the aching need, rose to the top, and he pulled her closer, wrapping his arms around her.
He wanted. Needed. Yearned. His hands clasped her hips and pulled her closer so she couldnât help but feel his desire.
He wanted to lay Keira down in a field of grass with a breeze rippling through it, the wide, blue Wyoming sky arching overhead and the sun warming their skin. He wanted to stroke her skin, to caress her until she cried his name and pulled him close, needing him as he needed her.
But all he could do was kiss her. Endlessly.
When I wrote Reillyâs Return years ago, my editor, Mary-Theresa Hussey, told me that Cody Walker was such a strong secondary character he deserved his own book. So who better to write about when I finally sat down to start writing romance again?
The problem was, part of Codyâs appeal was that he was so deeply in love with Mandy Edwards, the heroine of Reillyâs Return. How could I find a woman to replace Mandy in Codyâs heart? I reread Reillyâs Return until I finally found the clue to the kind of woman Cody needed. Someone very different from Mandy, and yet who in one crucial way was exactly like herâa woman who would kill or die to protect the man she loved.
Enter Keira Jones. I hope youâll agree with me that Keira is the only woman who could penetrate the shell guarding Codyâs tender heart. And I hope you enjoy reading Cody Walkerâs Woman as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I love hearing from my readers. Please email me at [email protected] and let me know what you think.
Amelia Autin
AMELIA AUTIN
is a voracious reader who canât bear to put a good book downâ¦or part with it. Her bookshelves are crammed with books her husband periodically threatens to donate to a good cause, but he always relentsâ¦eventually.
Amelia returned to her first love, romance writing, after a long hiatus, during which she wrote numerous technical manuals and how-to guides, as well as designed and taught classes on a variety of subjects, including technical writing. She is a long-time member of Romance Writers of America (RWA), and served three years as its treasurer.
Amelia currently resides with her Ph.D. 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 my editor, Mary-Theresa Hussey, who told me years ago that Cody deserved his own book. Tempus fugit. And for Vincentâ¦always.
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âScream.â
Keira Jones pushed the hair out of her eyes with both hands and stared in incomprehension at the man whoâd just dragged her kicking and clawing all the way from the other room into this one. His hold had been brutal, crushing her bones as heâd thrown her onto the filthy bed in the corner of this room before moving to shut the door behind them and lock it.
And then nothing. Nothing except that one word uttered in a harsh undertoneâscream.
âWhat?â she gasped.
He held one finger to his lips, pressing his ear against the wooden door. He cast a sharp glance around the room, grabbed a rickety chair and propped it under the door handle. Then he moved purposefully toward Keira.
She scrambled off the bed and backed away from him, away from what she thought was coming. If she was going to be raped, she wasnât going to make it easy for him. She looked frantically around the room for something, anything to use as a weapon, but he was on her before she had a chance.
âI said scream, damn it!â His angry voice was pitched to carry no farther than a foot away as he plastered her body against the wall with his muscular frame.
But she couldnât. Her heart was pounding in her chest, and her breath was coming in rapid pants, but no sound emerged from a throat dry with terror she refused to betray.
