Hard Core
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Publisher Description
He takes lives. She saves them.
A supposedly hassle-free job for mercenary Cristian Slade becomes a mission of mercy when he saves a life instead of taking one. Slade's new mission might be his most dangerous yet, because the danger is to his heart.
Tragedy has sent esteemed surgeon Alana O'Grady to a remote Nicaraguan island where she immerses herself in the lives of a native tribe, using her talents for goodwill instead of wealth and prestige. But life turns upside down when her work requires she protect a rugged mercenary who commands her attention when she's awake and dominates her dreams while she sleeps.
Doctoring Cristian puts her entire tribe in danger from the man who's hunting him. Is it her professional oath or her unproffessional attraction to him keeping her from sending him away to heal on ihs own? Alana's fire warms Cristian's heart, but he's a hardened assassin and has no business falling for someone like her. Can they fight hard enough to keep what they might have together?
Content Warning: Sexual content
Previously Published by Lyrical Press, 2012
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Professional mercenary (and former French Foreign Legionnaire) Cristian Slade is sent to kill a vicious criminal on a remote island off the coast of Nicaragua. The target is Gavin Ross, a nefarious killer and organ-legger on the wanted lists of "an alphabet soup of government agencies." Cristian's mission from the shady Onyx Group is turned upside down when he's wounded and secretly nursed back to health by Dr. Alana O'Grady; Gavin's holding Alana under his thumb, threatening to kill her cancer-stricken father and friends among the local tribe unless she harvests a healthy man's organs. After promising Alana's dying father that he'll protect her, Cristian rescues Alana and takes her to safety in the States. There they must come to terms with their feelings for one another, all the while knowing that Gavin is hunting for them. Contemporary romance fans who like a little tense action and melodrama in their love stories will find that this one fits the bill.
