The strangerâs hulking body loomed, and the sharp tip of his scimitar hovered a mere breath from my throatâ¦.
âYou will leave Egypt, witch,â he dictated. âToday.â
With a rush, air filled my lungs.
âYou will not interfere in matters that do not concern you.â
Even as he said it, my fingers clenched around my sword. âWell, they sure as hell concern me now.â And I swung.
âEvelyn Vaughn delivers thrills and chills in a true battle of good versus evil.â
âRomantic Times
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âTracey West, The Road to Romance
Dear Reader,
We invite you to sit back and enjoy the ride as you experience the powerful suspense, intense action and tingling emotion in Silhouette Bombshellâs November lineup. Strong, sexy, savvy heroines have never been so popular, and weâre putting the best right into your hands. Get ready to meet four extraordinary women who will speak to the Bombshell in you!
Maggie Sanger will need quick wit and fast moves to get out of Egypt alive when her pursuit of a legendary grail puts her on a collision course with a secret society, hostages and her furious ex! Get into Her Kind of Trouble, the latest in author Evelyn Vaughnâs captivating GRAIL KEEPERS miniseries.
Sabotage, scandal and one sexy inspector breathe down the neck of a determined air force captain as she strives to right an old wrong in the latest adventure in the innovative twelve-book ATHENA FORCE continuity series, Pursued by Catherine Mann.
Enter the outrageous underworld of Las Vegas prizefighting as a female boxing trainer goes up against the mob to save her father, her reputation and a child witness in Erica Orloffâs pull-no-punches novel, Knockout.
And though creating identities for undercover agents is her specialty, Kristie Hennessy finds out that work can be deadly when youâve got everyone fooled and no one to trust but a man you know only by his intriguing voiceâ¦. Donât miss Kate Donovanâs Identity Crisis.
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has written stories since she learned to make letters. But during the two years that she lived on a Navajo reservation in Arizonaâwhile in second and third gradeâshe dreamed of becoming not a writer, but a barrel racer in the rodeo. Before she actually got her own horse, however, her family moved to Louisiana. There, to avoid the humidity, she channeled more of her adventures into stories instead.
Since then, Evelyn has canoed in the east Texas swamps, rafted a white-water river in the Austrian Alps, rappelled barefoot down a three-story building, talked her way onto a ship to Greece without her passport, sailed in the Mediterranean and spent several weeks in Europe with little more than a backpack and a train pass. All at least once. While she enjoys channeling the more powerful âtravel Vaughnâ on a regular basis, she also loves the fact that she can write about adventures with far less physical discomfort. Since she now lives in Texas, where she teaches English at a local community college, air-conditioning still remains an important factor.
Her Kind of Trouble is Evelynâs eighth full-length book for Silhouette. Feel free to contact her through her Web site, www.evelynvaughn.com, or by writing to: P.O. Box 6, Euless TX, 76039.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Authorâs Note
One moment I was studying the five-thousand-year-old statue of a husband and wife, one of several in the Metropolitan Museum of Artâs sprawling Egyptian wing. What kind of romantic problems had they faced, I mused. Deception? Cross-purposes? Old wounds? Had love won out?
The next moment, I sensed someone behind me, all size and impatience and body heat.
And not in a nice way.
âSo you decided to be good, huh, Maggi?â The voice was too thick to be pleasant even if its owner tried.
He didnât.
I recognized billionaire slimeball, Phil Stuart, even before I turned. And here Iâd thought that this one-thousand-dollar-per-plate event was exclusive.
âIâm always good,â I told him, masking my unease as I turned anyway. Phil was nobody I wanted at my back. âBut if you mean well-behavedâ¦maybe not.â
âYou gave up on those stupid goddess cups, right?â
Gave up? It hadnât been two months since Iâd rescued the antique chalice of my ancestors, a holy relic called the Melusine Grail, from thugs sent by this guy. Since then, Iâd been preoccupied helping nurse my sometimes-lover Lex back to health after a vicious knife attack.
By more thugs.