Dr. Bond Bergstrom fights to save the life of a man shot near the lakeside path where he jogs. Later, when the hospital where Bond works as chief of surgery learns the shooter attempted to kill him also, the board insists on assigning security protection to him 24/7 until the killer is caught.<br><br>Bond is furious with the decision. Former Navy SEALs, he argues, can protect themselves better than anyone in the world. Not so, counters former Delta Force operative Rory O’Shea. He’s the hot, sexy Irish-American who owns the agency providing the hospital’s routine security.<br><br>Bond grudgingly gives in, unaware that O’Shea has an ulterior motive in assigning himself to spend nights with the doctor as his personal bodyguard. Will O’Shea prove he has what it takes to satisfy Bond -- both in and out of the bedroom?

Amen to Love

As he toured the house, Rory noticed the SEAL’s neatness. In too many ways it mirrored his home. Everything had its place and was in it. Even the towels in the bath always hung from the racks in perfect order with their corners “kissing” per shipboard requirements.


Tonight, Rory took time to really look at his office. The shelves were lined with every volume of the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, and biographies of courageous sailors of history, such as the Viking Leif Erickson and Italian Christopher Columbus.


A couple of biographies of Captain John Paul Jones, an officer in the Continental Army who raised the Continental ensign on the flagship of the Navy’s first fleet were there. Despite being a graduate of the Army’s West Point Military Academy, Rory happened to know Jones was credited with establishing the traditions of courage and professionalism followed by sailors today.


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