A bada** ex-Special Ops officer and a smart-mouth hacker fight a dangerous enemy…and a blistering attraction to each other.
Connor Hughes is an ex-special ops officer, CEO of Metrix Security,
and bonafide badass. His private security firm is renowned for its
effectiveness. He’s renowned for his lethal precision and iron
self-control. But when the former Marine meets a gorgeous young hacker
with a mouth as smart as her brain, his control unravels in ways he
never could have predicted.
Tabitha West is a genius MIT dropout with a bad attitude, an
obsession with Hello Kitty and piercings in unmentionable places. Tabby
amuses herself by outwitting the most secure technology systems on the
planet. Known in hacker circles as Polaroid due to her photographic
memory, she’s as secretive as she is accustomed to working alone. So
when Connor decides she’s the only one who can help him catch a cyber
criminal intent on taking down one of his clients, she tells him exactly
where he can stick it.
But when the cyber criminal turns out to be the Hannibal Lecter of
computer crime—and a dark presence from Tabby’s past—Tabby and Connor
are drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. They quickly find
themselves fighting not only their common enemy, but also an explosive
desire that threatens to consume them.
When the stakes are this high and the game this deadly, will falling in love be the most dangerous move of all?
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For a moment Connor just examines my face in silence. There’s a
strange tension in him, a stillness, like a held breath but in his
entire body. Then he abruptly swings around in his seat so he’s facing
me, his massive thighs on either side of my bar stool, his booted feet
planted on the floor.
Trapping me.
“What do you think you’re doing?” I ask, my voice high with panic.
“Got something to say to you. It’s important, so don’t talk until the end.”
He looks dangerously intense. His dark eyes are heated, drilling
into mine. His cheeks are flushed from the fire, or from something else,
but I don’t have time to think about what that something else might be
because he opens his mouth and starts to speak, and my brain faints dead
away, leaving me to fend for myself.
“I want you. Bad. Don’t know exactly why, you’re a complete pain in
my ass and pretty much the most contrary, foul-tempered woman I’ve ever
met, and you’ve made it really clear what you think about me, but every
time I look at you I have an almost overpowering urge to touch you,
kiss you, do a lot of bad things to you, and I don’t know how to manage
it. Yeah, it might be more prudent for me to keep this shit to myself,
but I know that when you don’t talk about shit it festers, gets worse,
and if the way I feel about you gets any worse I won’t be able to put my
goddamn shoes on in the morning. So I’m putting it out there.”
He takes a breath. Deeply shocked, I stare at him with my mouth open, my heart up in my throat.
“We’re both professionals. We have a job to do. And I don’t mix
business with pleasure. Ever. But the way I figure it, we’ve got one
more night until the work actually starts, and if I don’t do something
to get you straight in my head I won’t be able to do the job at all.”
He stops abruptly. Then he waits, watching me with unwavering intensity as I attempt to digest what just happened.
I whisper in disbelief, “You’re propositioning me?”
His gaze drops to my lips. When he looks back into my eyes, his own are burning. “You liked that kiss.”
He gives me time to deny it, but I don’t. How could I? We both know I’d be lying.
He adds, “And you called me hot, so I know you don’t think I’m a complete troll, even though you act like you do.”
“That was an accident.”
“Yep.” He nods. “And you fuckin’ hated yourself for it. Which is why I know it was true.”
Things are happening in my body. My nipples harden, my breath
quickens, there is a distinctive throb and ache between my legs. All
because this jarhead I hate just told me he wants to do bad things to
me.
Bad things. Dear God, were any two sexier words ever spoken?
J.T.
Geissinger is a #1 internationally best selling author of smart, sexy
romance. Writing in both the paranormal and contemporary romance genres,
her ten published novels all include a high level of sensuality,
intense emotional connections, and dark plot twists galore.
She is the recipient of the Prism Award for Best First Book, the Golden Quill Award for Best Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, and was a finalist for the prestigious RITA© Award from the Romance Writers of America. Her work has also finaled in the Booksellers’ Best, National Readers’ Choice, and Daphne du Maurier Awards.
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