Cindy Dees - Navy Seal Cop

From New York Times bestselling author Cindy Dees—

A captivating Code: Warrior SEALs romance

New Orleans detective Bastien LeBlanc is stumped by his new client, Carrie Price. The Navy SEAL must find Carrie’s kidnapped boss. Bass has never been a relationship kind of guy, so he’s floored by his undeniable attraction to Carrie. But can he trust her? Now all that can come between them are secrets from their pasts...and the all-too-real killer bearing down on them.

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author CINDY DEESis the author of more than fifty novels. She draws upon her experience as a US Air Force pilot to write romantic suspense. She’s a two-time winner of the prestigious RITA® Award for romance fiction, a two-time winner of the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Award for Romantic Suspense and an RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Best Author Award nominee. She loves to hear from readers at www.cindydees.com.

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Navy SEAL Cop

Cindy Dees

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ISBN: 978-1-474-07922-8

NAVY SEAL COP

© 2018 Cynthia Dees

Published in Great Britain 2018

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“Are you real?” she whispered.

His mouth traveled across her jaw and nuzzled her neck in the tender spot just below her ear. “You tell me. Does this feel real?”

He nipped lightly at the junction of her neck and shoulder, and a jolt of lust shot through her loins. She squeezed her thighs together, which turned out to be a mistake, because she’d managed to catch the bulge of his erection between the tops of her thighs in the process, and Bass groaned in response.

She shocked herself by sliding her hand down the indentation of his spine to his impressive glutes and gave a tug, pulling his hips even closer to hers.

“Carrie,” he muttered warningly. “I’m a gentleman, but I have my limits.”

“I’m a lady, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like busting through limits.”

* * *

Code: Warrior SEALs—Meet these fierce warriors who take on the most dangerous secret missions around the world!

Dear Reader,

I’m so delighted to share with you the final installment of my Code: Warrior SEALs series. I have really enjoyed returning to my writing roots and creating stories for a team of smoking-hot Navy SEALs and the smart, sexy women who love them.

This series has been especially meaningful to me because writing it spanned my fight with and ultimate conquering of cancer. In a way, the bad guys my SEALs defeated became symbolic to me of my own health struggles and victory in the end.

Writing this series has served as a rich reminder to me that we all have our own uphill battles to face in life, and that reading books is a vital escape from those. I would like to think romance novels also remind us that, at the end of the day, love can overcome every obstacle placed before it.

From the bottom of my heart, I hope this book gives you a needed escape from whatever challenges you face in your life, and I hope it helps you remember love is, indeed, the most powerful force in the universe. Love conquers all. For real.

All my best and happy reading!

Warmly,

Cindy

Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

About the Author

Booklist

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

Dear Reader

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Extract

About the Publisher

Chapter 1

Deserted alley in the middle of the night when all sensible people were in bed? Check.

Famously haunted and badly lit location? Check.

Ground fog swirling thickly enough to create a spooky-as-heck mood and obscure everything? Check.

Either she was ready to start shooting the next episode of the popular television show America’s Ghosts , or she was about to commit a homicide.

Of course, if the show’s host didn’t quit trying to tell her how to do her job filming him, there might just be a murder out here tonight.

Carrie Price stared through the viewfinder of her digital movie camera at her boss and renowned ghost hunter, Gary Hubbard. For tonight’s episode he’d picked Pirate’s Alley in New Orleans. The tourists and foot traffic were long gone, leaving just their footsteps to echo weirdly off the brick walls and their grotesquely elongated shadows to freak her out a little bit.

Bounded on one side by St. Anthony’s Garden behind a tall, wrought-iron fence and on the other side by darkened shops with tightly closed wooden doors, the narrow alley was only lit by widely spaced cast-iron streetlamps, forming blue haloes of light in drifts of ground fog. The old bricks glistened with moisture and a damp chill hung in the air. She wouldn’t have to apply any filters at all in post-production to achieve the show’s signature gothic vibe.