Night Of No Return. Eileen Wilks

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      When a lethal traitor

       threatens to derail the top-secret SPEAR agency,

       A YEAR OF LOVING DANGEROUSLY continues….

      Alex Bok

      Tall, virile, potently sexy—lives every moment

       as if it were his last.

      On a deadly mission to bring down a traitor,

       this hard-edged bachelor is reunited with the only

       woman who had ever truly touched his heart.

       Would he pay the ultimate price

       for passion’s sake?

      Nora Lowe

      She has eyes the color of the pale blue dawn,

       long, rippling black hair—and is saving all her

       love for one unforgettable man.

      She didn’t know what Alex Bok was doing on her

       archeological dig—or why danger shadowed his

       every move. So she engaged in a sweetly seductive

       game of kiss and tell….

      The man at the helm

      Powerful, pragmatic—the shadowed entity

       no one sees.

      Jonah had given Agent Bok direct orders—

       infiltrate the nearby terrorist compound

       and ensnare the sinister Simon

       in a deadly trap. But was one of his own

       about to be neutralized by love?

      Dear Reader,

      As the Intimate Moments quarter of our yearlong 20^th anniversary promotion draws to a close, we offer you a month so full of reading excitement, you’ll hardly know where to start. How about with Night Shield, the newest NIGHT TALES title from New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts? As always, Nora delivers characters you’ll never forget and a plot guaranteed to keep you turning the pages. And don’t miss our special NIGHT TALES reissue, also available this month wherever you buy books.

      What next? How about Night of No Return, rising star Eileen Wilks’s contribution to our in-line continuity, A YEAR OF LOVING DANGEROUSLY? This emotional and suspenseful tale will have you on the edge of your seat—and longing for the next book in the series. As an additional treat this month, we offer you an in-line continuation of our extremely popular out-of-series continuity, 36 HOURS. Bestselling author Susan Mallery kicks things off with Cinderella for a Night. You’ll love this book, along with the three Intimate Moments novels—and one stand-alone Christmas anthology—that follow it.

      Rounding out the month, we have a new book from Beverly Bird, one of the authors who helped define Intimate Moments in its very first month of publication. She’s joined by Mary McBride and Virginia Kantra, each of whom contributes a top-notch novel to the month.

      Next month, look for a special two-in-one volume by Maggie Shayne and Marilyn Pappano, called Who Do You Love? And in November, watch for the debut of our stunning new cover design.

      Leslie J. Wainger

      Executive Senior Editor

      Night of No Return

      Eileen Wilks

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      A note from RITA Award Finalist Eileen Wilks,

       author of ten novels for Silhouette Books:

      Dear Reader,

      A YEAR OF LOVING DANGEROUSLY—wow! The name alone was enough to make me excited about being part of this continuity series. I feel privileged indeed to be in the company of so many stellar writers, and I fell hard for the heroes—men and women both—who are the agents of SPEAR. What’s not to love? With spies and bad guys, honor faced off against villainy and love pushed to its limits, A YEAR OF LOVING DANGEROUSLY promises 12 extraordinary stories about the power and danger of love.

      My story, Night of No Return, is set in a land of extremes. Alex Bok is on the trail of terrorists and stolen weapons in the Sinai Desert. He finds more than he bargained for, and his courage is pushed to its limits by the dictates of honor—and by a gutsy heroine who dares him to take the biggest risk of all.

      Contents

      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

      Epilogue

      Chapter 1

      Southern California, U.S.A., September 7

      He didn’t want to die.

      It was a disconcerting thing for a man like Alex to learn at the age of thirty-four. He sat at one of the wrought-iron tables on the western terrace, dripping with sweat as he watched the southern California sky turn gaudy with sunset over the darkening Pacific Ocean. If the air could have held one dram more of that eye-burning orange, he thought, he’d be able to pluck it like a guitar string.

      Color. Life. He drank them both in, relishing the way the muscles in his thighs jumped and the burn in his calves. His heartbeat pleased him. It was almost back to normal, though he’d just finished a five-mile run in the scrubby mountains surrounding the resort. If he wasn’t quite at the peak of conditioning yet, he was well enough. His body had done everything he’d asked of it. He was fit again, ready for assignment.

      And alive. He was СКАЧАТЬ