USStephanie Tyleris the author of the Shadow Force novelsLie to Me, Promises in the Dark,andIn the Air Tonight,and the Navy SEAL trilogy:Hard to Hold, Too Hot to Hold,andHold On Tight. She lives in New York with her husband, her daughter, and a crazy Weimaraner named Gus.Anything can happen under the cover of darkness.
Kell Roberts has walked the thin line between life and death for so long that it now feels like home. He is a soldier, a survivor, and a loner. Still, Kell cannot turn his back on the beautiful woman caught in his firefight against the drug lords of Mexico. She says her name is Teddie, but Kell senses there’s much more to her story—and it’s about to pull him into a mission he didn’t sign on for: keeping her alive.
Teddie knows this lean, mean rescuer just saved her life, but the steel glint behind those soft gray eyes seem to be hiding something deep. The men after Teddie are deadly, but the man who holds her life in his hands and tempts her with his wicked touch is even more dangerous. He could make her dream about living and loving again. And if they can survive, maybe, just maybe, they can stop fighting the world and each other—and simply surrender.Kell Roberts had been at the foster home in Dillingham, Alaska, for three months, four days and sixteen hours and had managed to lie his way through every damned minute when the blond kid arrived with a deep Southern drawl, a bag Kell would later discover contained barely anything and an attitude as big as the hills, all to share Kell’s room. He barely acknowledged Kell’s existence, got into bed and didn’t get up for twenty- four hours straight.
Kell didn’t think enough of it to ask anyone his name. Roommates came and went here and he’d always found it better to not get involved.
On the second day, Kell’s wallet went missing, along with various and sundl“'