To
uncover the truth, Max and Christa must win their toughest battle yet.
The Russian Obsession
Foreign Affairs #3
Nikki Navarre
Releasing Feb 21, 2017
Ex-Russian fighter pilot Max Vasylko is a gun-for-hire smuggler who’ll fly contraband cargo anywhere in the world, no questions asked. But he can’t fly far enough to forget the wife and daughter who died in an Ebola outbreak. When a bioweapon from a rogue U.S. program is to blame, Max’s mission turns personal. Find the scientist responsible for designing the super virus—and make her pay. The last villain he expects is Christa: a smart, sexy, scrappy survivor in hiking boots who’s lost her own brother to the virus.
Now Max is flying high above the African jungle with enemy agents in his six and a sweet redhead he’ll risk his backside to protect. Christa’s tempted to trust this hot-as-hell jet jockey with his wildcat courage and Mafia past. But the vaccine isn’t the only secret locked in her head. To uncover the truth, Max and Christa must win their toughest battle yet. The battle of hearts between them.
The biggest bouncer she’d ever seen was powering toward her like a tank on
steroids. Packing a machine gun the size of a bazooka.
Teetering on her stilettos, Christa froze. The music throbbed in her ears
like a heartbeat. An electric current of panic pulsed through her veins.
Cheesed-off cops on one side and a bad guy bouncer on the other.
And, clutched tight in her perspiring palms, the McGuffin. A briefcase
holding five million doses of a deadly virus. Or a cure that could save the
world.
“Hey, doc.” A voice dipped in Brooklyn brass grated in her ear. “I swear to
God, I ought to turn you over my knee.”
Alarm and annoyance jolted through her—swamped by overwhelming relief. She
spun to face six and a half feet of towering menace. Ultramarine eyes seared
through her like lasers. Stripped to his tee shirt, bronzed biceps and wicked
tattoo sheened in sweat, Max Vasylko spelled danger with a capital D.
The breath shuddered out of her tight-locked lungs.
Along with a whopping dose of sass.
“What kind of grunting Neanderthal are you, major? Were you raised in a
cave? If you think you’re laying a hand on me, you’re going to need an army—”
“Army of one, baby.”
His low growl in her ear sent goose bumps racing down her arms and curled
her toes in her boots. His big hands closed around her naked shoulders. Heat
snaked from his callused palms and sheeted down her spine.
Max pushed her into a vacant banquette scattered with cards and cash. Her
bottom hit the red vinyl seat with a bounce. He snagged the briefcase from her
startled arms and tossed it at the opposite seat.
“Hey!” she cried. “That case isn’t a football. You can’t just—”
“News flash. I just did.”
He crawled right in after her. Right between her thighs.
Her heart was a kettledrum roaring in her ears. She slithered and scrambled
over the slippery seat. He took every inch she gave him and kept on coming.
Which was how she ended up flat on her back.
He crawled right on top of her, weight braced on those impressive arms.
For a moment in time that stretched surreal, like a Dali clock melting in
the desert sun, he crouched over her. She forgot about the jumpy cop with the
trigger finger, the tank-sized bouncer packing heat, the backstabbing ex-boss
sprawled somewhere on the floor.
The world narrowed to the span of Max’s powerful shoulders and the primal
musk of saffron and cedar. Above his neckline, the spiky tips of another fierce
tattoo curled around his neck.
She was guessing that hidden ink spread all the way across his shoulders.
Maybe all the way down his back. And that was a lot of real estate to cover on a man like Max. With the flashing
lights behind him, shadows cloaked his face. And every inch of him scorched her
skin.
“Wow.” She managed a husky whisper. “You’re…really…something.”
“Pot and the goddamn kettle,” he growled.
Right before he kissed her.
DECLASSIFIED MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: Five Fun Facts About The Russian Obsession
FROM: Author
and Double Agent Nikki Navarre
WARNING: This
message will self-destruct.
BACKGROUND:
1.
This sexy spy
romance, Book Three in the award-winning Foreign
Affairs series, is loosely inspired by Nikki’s colorful past as a Russian-speaking
diplomat based at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, where she reported on weapons of
mass destruction issues.
2.
Russian
nightclub Provocation, the smoking hot scene of Max and Christa’s first kiss,
is based on a globally notorious real-life nightspot called The Hungry
Duck—complete with strippers dancing on the bar and Russian mobsters packing
heat—that closed in disgrace a decade ago.
3.
Nikki’s double
identity gives her access to a cast of real-life experts. A PhD biological
weapons expert and an ex-Army Ranger with a heart of gold provided
off-the-record background for the fictional bio weapons lab VIRUS that opens
the book and the contraband cargo smuggling business that makes ex-fighter
pilot Max a wanted man.
4.
Nikki’s
pedigreed Siberian cat Pandora has a cameo role—starring herself, of course—in The Russian Obsession, where she makes a
dramatic entrance.
5.
Amnesiac viral
engineer Christabel Orlova, heroine of The
Russian Obsession, barely stays one step ahead of her hunters as she
backpacks across Africa and Southeast Asia. Nikki’s real-life
dream is a round-the-world backpacking trip, for which she is diligently saving
her rubles.
RECOMMENDATION:
1.
Launch
immediate undercover investigation of TheRussian Obsession, read cover to cover, and report back to Washington for
action. Global release scheduled Feb. 21, 2017.
AGENT COORDINATES:
DOSSIER
FOR NIKKI NAVARRE
DECLASSIFIED
Subject: Nikki
Navarre
Assignment: Double
Agent
Cover: Diplomat.
Playgirl. Author of the Foreign Affairs
series.
Nikki
Navarre is the
author of the award-winning Foreign
Affairs series and the sinister twin of unsuspecting historical
romance author Laura Navarre. In her
other life, Nikki is a diplomat who’s lived in
Russia and works on weapons of mass destruction issues. In the line of duty, she’s been trapped in an
elevator in a nuclear power plant and has stalked the corridors of facilities
churning out nerve agent and other apocalyptic weapons. In this capacity, she
meets many of the world’s most dangerous men.
Inspired by the perilous realities of her real life, Nikki writes romantic suspense
set in glamorous international locales and laced with political intrigue. From her island compound in the Pacific
Northwest, she divides her time between her writing career and other adventures
for government clients. Her notorious
exploits in the world of diplomacy will get her in trouble one of these days.
The
Russian Obsession may be the last mistake she
ever makes.
Thank you for featuring Nikki and THE RUSSIAN OBSESSION!
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