A reporter helps a sexy senator evade a deadly assassin in this thrilling Man on a Mission tale
TV reporter Carly Edwards has the scoop of a century! Sheâs discovered that Senator Shane Jones was diagnosed with a life-altering illness, but she canât help but be drawn to his courage. So when Shane saves Carlyâs life from a killer, she resolves to keep her storyâand the irresistible politicianâaliveâ¦
A politician and a media personality are a recipe for romantic disaster. The last thing Shane wants is to endanger Carly. But how can he prevent her from getting close when the very air between them sizzles? As their lives are threatened, Shane realizes Carlyâs the one woman he wants foreverâif he can keep them both safe!
Carly turned toward the closet as she was speaking, and that was when Shane saw the back of her dress.
Or rather, what wasnât there. And before he knew it, heâd spoken her name in a voice that couldnât hide his desperate need.
She froze for a second, then faced him. And the invitation in her eyes was unmistakable. âIâm not really hungry,â she whispered. âExceptâ¦â She caught her breath, then let it out, the faintest tremor running through her body. âFor you, Shane,â she finished on a rush. âExcept for you.â
He closed his eyes, then opened them again. And suddenly Carly was in his arms, her lips locked onto his. A rushing sound filled his ears, and he realized it was his blood coursing through his veins as his heart pounded furiously. He let Carly go only long enough to fight out of his overcoat and jacket, dropping them unheeded on the floor. Then his arms closed around her again.
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Dear Reader,
When I wrote Cody Walkerâs Woman, I gave my heroine, Keira Jones, four brothersâall older, all former US Marines and all playing a role (good and bad) in shaping the woman she was.
Then I wrote Alecâs Royal Assignment and Liamâs Witness Protection, the stories of two of Keiraâs brothers. But even as I was writing Alecâs and Liamâs stories, in the back of my mind was Shane. The eldest. The toughest. The strongest influence on all his younger siblings.
But Shane wasnât easy to get to knowâhe eluded me for the longest time. It wasnât until a personal family crisis that Shane became real to me, and I knew what could make a nearly invincible man vulnerable. Then I just had to write his story.
After I understood Shane I realized I needed to find a tough-as-nails heroine to match him, but one with a tender, loving heart hidden beneath that tiger-shark exterior. Along came Carly Edwards, just in the nick of time. Carly wasnât easy to get to know, either, because thereâs nothing of Carly in me (I wish!). Once I accepted that, however, I suddenly knew who Carly wasâa woman whose private pain once made the six-oâclock newsâ¦but never again.
Shane and Carly fought the odds and won, and in doing so won my heart. Isnât that what we all look for in a hero and heroine? Isnât that why we read romance?
I love hearing from my readers. Please email me at [email protected] and let me know what you think.
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, 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 the doctors, nurses, technicians, nursing assistants and everyone at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, who exemplify what medicine can and should be for patients and their families. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. For my stepson, Chris Lam, who will soon be a doctor himself and is already a great diagnostician because he asks the right questions and listens to the answers. And for Vincentâ¦always.
Prologue
Shane Jones, junior senator from Colorado, lay in his hospital bed in the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, staring in disbelief at the barrage of doctors and interns assembled in his private room. He could have gone anywhere for medical testing and diagnosisâand had, with no resultsâbut heâd chosen the Mayo Clinic Hospital when a doctor friend from his days in the Marine Corps had recommended it. No other medical professional heâd consulted had ever even heard of his symptoms, much less had been able to put a name to them. But the doctors here had.