FBI profiler Kerry Satterfield feels she can never live down her mother’s sordid past. She pursues her chosen career with dogged determination that leaves no time for a life, certainly none for romance. Then she gets a strange tip on her current case. She ends up prisoner of a man she hasn’t seen for over fifteen years before he hands her a most unorthodox means of breaking this case. If it fails, she’s in deep trouble. She may be anyway, because she finds Frank Ogden all too alluring. Frank has cooperated with his stepbrother out of fear his mother will be killed if he doesn’t. He agrees to get the nosy FBI agent off Gary’s back, but he will not stand to see her hurt or killed. When he realizes she’s the girl he befriended when they were both teenagers, he can’t resist the opportunity to pick up where they had left off. Kerry is a hottie now even if she doesn’t realize it. Then Kerry, Frank, and his friend Roy band together to bring Gary to justice. In the process they discover they make a great team, both armed and amorous.

Armed and Amorous

He gestured her out the door ahead of him. She looked back over her shoulder for an instant. The light was dim, but he’d have sworn she gave him a sassy grin, as if she knew perfectly well how close she’d come to catching him. Again, that was like the girl Kerry. Before this was over, he’d find out for sure.


There was something naggingly familiar about this guy. Kerry mulled that over as she preceded the man down the stairs, then followed him to a nondescript, dull-hued mini pickup. Gut feelings told her to take her own car, but she suspected he wouldn’t go for it. Not that the Toyota offered much protection or security, but she felt better having the independence of her own wheels.


Chapter 4