Rocky Mountain Pursuit
IDENTITY: CONFIDENTIALEveryone believes agent Jase Bradford is dead—everyone but Reyna Peterson. Only he can protect her now that someone wants the information her CIA husband died to secure. As the one member of their spy team not killed, Jase must remain in the shadows. Yet when Reyna leads the enemy right to his mountain refuge and blows his cover, Jase risks his life for hers. As his best friend’s beautiful widow scales the walls around his heart, whether out of loyalty or love, he makes it his duty to secure her safety. But when their pursuers trap them in the snowy Colorado mountains, will it become his final mission?
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IDENTITY: CONFIDENTIAL
Everyone believes agent Jase Bradford is deadâeveryone but Reyna Peterson. Only he can protect her now that someone wants the information her CIA husband died to secure. As the one member of their spy team not killed, Jase must remain in the shadows. Yet when Reyna leads the enemy right to his mountain refuge and blows his cover, Jase risks his life for hers. As his best friendâs beautiful widow scales the walls around his heart, whether out of loyalty or love, he makes it his duty to secure her safety. But when their pursuers trap them in the snowy Colorado mountains, will it become his final mission?
âYouâre all I have.â
Despite Reynaâs words, his patience neared the breaking point. âTell me who they are.â
âI donât know.â Then she slumped forward, as if she couldnât take any more. âThey came to my house and threatened me. They said my husband had taken something they wanted. Jase, I think these men killed him. And now theyâre after me. We need to get out of here.â
The noise of approaching vehicles grew louder. As much as he needed to know more about the danger sheâd brought to his door, if they didnât leave soon there would be no way out.
He led her into the night. âTake my hand. We canât risk using the flashlight. Stay quiet. Noise carries for miles up in these mountains.â
She clasped his hand. The tremors in her gave away her fear, and his heart went out to her.
It might be the worst mistake of his life, but he believed everything sheâd told him. Heâd do whatever it took to protect his friendâs widowâ¦or he would die trying.
MARY ALFORD was inspired to become a writer after reading romantic suspense greats Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney. Soon, creating characters and throwing them into dangerous situations that test their faith came naturally for Mary. In 2012 Mary entered the Speed Dating contest hosted by Love Inspired Suspense and later received âthe call.â Writing for Love Inspired Suspense has been a dream come true for Mary.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
âIsaiah 40:31
To the men and women of our armed forces
who risk their lives daily so that we might enjoy the freedom that we do today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your sacrifice.
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A thunderous rap on her front door jerked Dr. Reyna Petersonâs attention from the letter sheâd been reading seconds earlier. Her heart slammed against her chest at the ominous tone of the knock. It was almost eleven at night and she wasnât expecting company so late.
The pounding grew louder and more demanding. Whoever was out there wasnât going away. Reyna shoved the letter into the pocket of her robe, flipped on the outside light and inched the curtains apart. Three extremely menacing-looking men dressed in suits stood on her front porch. She didnât recognize any of them.
If it werenât for the unsettling contents of Eddieâs letter warning her this moment might come, Reyna might not have thought anything unusual about the men on her porch. But now, coupled with the events leading up to her husbandâs death, she wasnât so sure.
She glanced around the living room as the banging was followed by an angry voice, demanding, âOpen the door, Dr. Peterson. Now. Federal agents.â
Donât trust anyone from the government, Eddie had warned in the letter.
The door rattled in someoneâs grasp. Were they going to break the door down? Her chest constricted with fear. Reyna grabbed the phone to call 9-1-1, but what the man said next had her ending the call before she placed it.
âThis is about your husband, Dr. Peterson, and what he stole from his country. If you donât want to be charged as a coconspirator to treason, I suggest you open the door.â
Every instinct inside of her warned against it, but in her heart she knew she had to find out what they were accusing Eddie of stealing, because she had a feeling she knew already.
âPlease, Lord, protect me,â she whispered under her breath. Her fingers shook as she slowly unlocked the dead bolt. Before she could open the door, the men burst inside without invitation. The door hit Reyna in the shoulder and sent her stumbling backward. She almost lost her footing.
Now she was truly terrified. Three strange men were in her house and she was alone.
âWhat do you think youâre doing? You canât just barge in here without invitationââ
âWe can,â interrupted the man who had spoken earlier. He was obviously the leader.
