Full Throttle
TEMPERATURE'S RISING…and it had nothing to do with the weather! For when hurricane hunter Kate Hargrave met hotshot test pilot Dave Scott, everything started heating up. But it was a warming trend cautious Kate–once burned by her philandering ex–was determined to ignore at all costs. Because Dave's love-'em-and-leave-'em reputation was a label she was finding all too familiar….Air force pilot Dave Scott had had an eye for the ladies to be sure–but that was in the past. For once he saw the sexy, gorgeous researcher assigned to be his partner on the Pegasus Project, he knew that he was meant to be a one-woman man. Now if he could only convince the skittish Kate that appearances could be deceiving….
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The Woman Was Stubborn As Well As Gorgeous, Dave Realized.
And not above pulling rank over him. Well, that pretty much fit in with what heâd heard about Lieutenant Commander Kate Hargrave.
The sexy hurricane hunter couldnât know it but her ex-husband had had a few things to say to Dave about the woman whoâd just dumped him, none of them particularly flattering. She was, according to the still-bitter aviator, ambitious as hell, fearless in the air, a tiger in bed and a real ball-buster out of it.
Dave figured three out of four was good enough for him.
Yes, sir, he thought, as he caught a last glimpse of turquoise spandex in the mirror. This assignment was looking better and better by the minute.
Dear Reader,
Welcome to another compelling month of powerful, passionate and provocative love stories from Silhouette Desire. You asked for itâ¦you got itâ¦more Dynasties! Our newest continuity, DYNASTIES: THE DANFORTHS, launches this month with Barbara McCauleyâs The Cinderella Scandal. Set in Savannah, Georgia, and filled with plenty of family drama and sensuality, this new twelve-book series will thrill you for the entire year.
There is one sexy air force pilot to be found between the pages of the incomparable Merline Lovelaceâs Full Throttle, part of her TO PROTECT AND DEFEND series. And the fabulous Justine Davis is back in Silhouette Desire with Midnight Seduction, a fiery tale in her REDSTONE, INCORPORATED series.
If itâs a whirlwind Vegas wedding youâre looking for (and who isnât?) then be sure to pick up the third title in Katherine Garberaâs KING OF HEARTS miniseries, Let It Ride. The fabulous TEXAS CATTLEMANâS CLUB: THE STOLEN BABY series continues this month with Kathie DeNoskyâs tale of unforgettable passion, Remembering One Wild Night. And finally, welcome new author Amy Jo Cousins to the Desire lineup with her superhot contribution, At Your Service.
I hope all of the Silhouette Desire titles this month will fulfill your every fantasy.
Melissa Jeglinski
Senior Editor, Silhouette Desire
MERLINE LOVELACE
spent twenty-three years in the air force, pulling tours in Vietnam, at the Pentagon and at bases all over the world. When she hung up her uniform, she decided to try her hand at writing. Sheâs since had more than fifty novels published, with over seven million copies of her work in print. She and her husband enjoy traveling and chasing little white balls around the fairways. Watch for the next book in the TO PROTECT AND DEFEND series, The Right Stuff, coming from Silhouette Intimate Moments in March 2004.
To my buds on the RomVets loopâ
women who all served their country and are now turning out great novels! Thanks for sharing your expertise on aircraft malfunctions, explosive devices and general all around fun stuff.
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
One
Kate Hargrave was a good five miles into her morning jog when she spotted a plume of dust rising from the desert floor. Swiping at the sweat sheâd worked up despite the nip September had brought to the high desert, she squinted through the shimmering New Mexico dawn at the vehicle churning up that long brown rooster tail.
A senior weather researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, Kate had logged hundreds of hours of flight time as one of NOAAâs famed Hurricane Hunters. The pilots she flew with all possessed a steady hand on the controls, nerves of steel and an unshakable belief in their ability to look death in the eye and stare it down. So when she gauged the speed of the pickup hurtling straight toward her, she had no doubt who was at its wheel.
USAF Captain Dave Scottâa seasoned test pilot with hundreds of hours in both rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. Scott had been yanked off an assignment with Special Operations to become the newest addition to the supersecret test cadre tucked away in this remote corner of southeastern New Mexico.
He was supposed to have arrived last night but had phoned Captain Westfall from somewhere along the road and indicated heâd check in first thing this morning. No explanations for the delay, or none the navy captain in charge of the supersecret Pegasus project had relayed to his crew, anyway.
That alone was enough to put a dent in Kateâs characteristically sunny good nature. She and the rest of the small, handpicked cadre had been here for weeks now. Theyâd been working almost around the clock to conduct final operational testing on the new all-weather, all-terrain attack-assault vehicle code-named Pegasus. The urgency of their mission had been burned into their brains from day one. That Captain Scott would delay his arrivalâeven by as little as eight hours of admittedly dead timeâdidnât particularly sit well with Kate.
Then there was the fact that the air force had pegged Scott to replace Lieutenant Colonel Bill Thompson, the original air force representative to the project. Everyone on the team had liked and respected the easygoing and highly experienced test pilot. Unfortunately, Bill had suffered a heart attack after being infected by the vicious virus that attacked him and a number of other members of the test cadre some days ago.
