Security specialist Nikki Price knew the drill: Be alert and keep the subject alive. But Dr. Scott Carter was no routine assignment - and no ordinary man. Five years ago she'd worked undercover in his home to expose a traitor - and had succeeded. Yet when the accolades had ceased, her doubt and suspicion had grown - along with her guilt. For Nikki had unwittingly betrayed both Scott and his young daughter.
NEVER LET DOWN YOUR GUARD Now Nikki wanted answers to the past. Scott and his little girl's lives depended upon them. And so did hers. But she'd already broken the cardinal rule:
When I sold to Silhouette books on my wedding anniversary in 1979 I didn't expect to get this far. I love what I do and can't imagine doing anything else. I'm married living with Katie, a white mini Schnauzer who considers herself the center of our world, Hunter, a Yorkie mix who's a real mama's boy, Olivia my darling diva chihuahua, Dutch, our easy going happy go lucky terrier mix, Syd, our Panama Nape parrot, and Florence, our demented tortoise. We live in Southern California near San Diego in a town that's provided fodder for some of my stories. Once upon a time, I could say that when we moved here there were three romance writers. Now there is only me and to date I have not been considered a suspect. More romance authors have moved in and are safe and sound...so far.
A lot of my backlist books are now available for your Kindle and in print along with new novellas featuring the first witches in the Hex series along with my second love, romantic suspense books. And more books coming!
My Hex series are the books of my heart. The ones I've wanted to write for a long time and so glad to see out there. Many readers are confused by the two Demon titles and different cover looks. They're a part of the Hex series, still the disgraced witches from the Witches Academy, just with a different look. And yes, more Hex books will be coming!
There are times I think I enjoy writing the creatures more than the characters. And probably why my Fluff and Puff bunny slippers tend to never be where I left them! That's more than easy to do since they're tattooed on one ankle and Horace is tattooed on the other.
I'm very thankful for my readers for sticking to me.
Once you began to just yada yada through the wardrobe descriptions it was alright, because if I had to picture one more person in Lyrca I was going to have put the book down. The story was just alright and the ending was kind of sad. I know it was published more than ten years ago and it's evident, painfully so. If I had read this book in '95 I may have liked it better but it just no longer rang true in today's world. This rating was probably due to my preconceived ideas of what to expect from Silhouette, and this was not it. A quick read, a sweet read once you push through the dated outfits and the lack of electronics (which the entire sub-plot is based around) there's really some heart to it, somewhere in there...it's just packaged in magenta lycra and turquoise polos.
Five years ago Nikki was working in the home of Dr. Scott Carter. She was cooking, cleaning and looking after his daughter. In her real life she was naval intelligence. She was the one who gathered the evidence that had Scott's wife arrested for treason And while waiting on charges and a trial she committed suicide. Only Nikki thought it was a little too neat. And when her father the Admiral would not listen to her concerns she resigned her naval commission.
Now, five years have passed. Nikkei returns as housekeeper/bodyguard to Scott and his daughter. But when she finds herself falling for the doctor will she be able to keep him safe?