By Karen Robards
Big apple instances bestselling writer Karen Robards’s exciting modern romantic suspense novel that includes an electrical appeal among a cop and a thief.It’s no longer that Micayla Lange is scared of the clinking she hears at the first ground of the empty mansion the place she’s housesitting for her Uncle Nicco. She’s a cop, in the end. yet she’s on my own on New Year’s Eve, donning pajamas and wielding a Glock 22 as she zeroes in at the resource of the sound: Nicco’s inner most office. Jason Davis steals issues for a dwelling, so unforeseen advancements are a common a part of the activity. Getting stuck red-handed by means of a sizzling police officer in a gangster’s abandoned home is only one extra twist within the video game. Like discovering incriminating images in Nicco Marino’s secure, basically to find the cop has gotten an outstanding examine his face. regrettably for Mick, she additionally received an excellent examine the images. Her “uncle” may well love her like kinfolk, yet she doesn’t like her percentages if he understands she’s noticeable proof that implicates him within the homicide of a urban councilman. that's why she’s having a troublesome time reconciling her expert instincts with what has turn into an inescapable truth: She’s approximately to aid a felony escape with a suitcase packed with stolen funds. And she’s going with him. As their event heats up and their enemies shut in, Mick is torn among her responsibility to the strength and the flamable ardour engulfing her and her not going accomplice in crime. She’ll need to flip Jason in or later…if they live to tell the tale. yet will they ever get a moment probability at love?
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But will they ever get a second chance at love? KAREN ROBARDS is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of forty-one books and one novella. The mother of three boys, she lives in Louisville, Kentucky. com/Gallery_Books JACKET DESIGN BY LISA LITWACK JACKET PHOTOGRAPH WOMAN © ROBERT JONES/ARCANGEL IMAGES AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN VELLENCHENKO COPYRIGHT © 2011 SIMON & SCHUSTER (CONTINUED ON BACK FLAP) Thank you for purchasing this Gallery Books eBook. Sign up for our newsletter and receive special offers, access to bonus content, and info on the latest new releases and other great eBooks from Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster.