Time is running out and the enemy is at the gate.
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Title:
Contracted Defense
Author: Piper J. Drake
Series: A Safeguard Novel
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Publisher: Carina Press
Length: 70,000 Words
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781459290518
Adam Hicks may be the rookie at Safeguard, but he’s no novice in the field. Retired from active duty after multiple tours and back fresh from a brief rest in New Zealand, he’s itching to return to action. But the challenge he hoped for arrives in an unexpected form: his sexy yet stern new partner.
The last thing Victoria Ash wants is to work with the new guy—especially one as gorgeous as Adam. His relaxed attitude about their first "easy" assignment together—setting up a private home defense network for a reclusive client—doesn’t impress her. Easy usually means trouble. She’s proved right when Adam discovers that the multiple incursions on the physical and cyber security systems aren’t just glitches. They’re under attack…and there’s a traitor in their midst.
As tension mounts, so does the attraction between Victoria and Adam. They must protect their client and the research he’s desperately trying to keep secret. Working together, they have to find the mole before their defense measures, in the fortress and online, are compromised and the deadly secrets they’ve sworn to protect are revealed.
Excerpt:
She shrugged. “I prefer to carry myself in a professional manner.
Impeccable. Respectable. Reliable.”
He frowned. As she’d spoken, her comments had cut inward. Far from
positive, her words had turned bitter with remembered anger. There was the
malaise he’d noticed about her. It’d come and gone throughout their working
session. It was a dark, ugly cloud of thought eating her from the inside out.
Consuming her and turning her attention deep inside, she wasn’t even aware of
his proximity anymore.
Well, couldn’t have that.
He leaned in and kissed her.
He’d intended to be quick, startle her out of her thoughts. But as
soon as their lips met, hers parted in a gasp and he couldn’t resist the
invitation. He took her deeper, tasting.
She kissed back, drinking him in and leaning into him. Her hands
gripped his waist in encouragement.
Just like that, he was on fire and she was living flame under him.
He’d backed her up against the table until she was on her back. His hips fit
between her legs, grinding until they both groaned with the friction. He
gripped her ass until she lifted her legs and wrapped them around his waist.
Her hands hooked behind his neck, pulling him in for hungry kisses.
A sharp, happy bark sounded outside.
Sucking in air, he straightened and pulled her up to stand with
him. They stumbled back from each other. Each of them dragged their hands
through their own hair in an attempt to straighten themselves up.
A minute later, there was a knock on the pool house door.
About Piper J.
Drake:
Piper J. Drake is a bestselling author of romantic suspense
and edgy contemporary romance, a frequent flyer, and day job road warrior. She
is often distracted by dogs, cupcakes, and random shenanigans.
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