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 hadn’t shown any of the body language of a liar nor did he hesitate in his reply. Still she was startled. “The bartender? The one that talked to the guy who might be the kidnapper?”


The man started visibly. “He told you that? Cripes. I wondered how he got you to go with him. I mean most cops are pretty wily and FBI agents—well, if one of them has a dumb attack, nobody ever finds out.”


“Why am I here? This doesn’t look like a thug’s hangout, or a place to hide kidnapped boys.”


Roy shook his head, standing to pace around the room. “I’ve said too damn much already. I wasn’t thinking clear. This whole gig’s scaring me. I don’t know what Frank’s plan is. I swear I don’t. He said it was better that I not know too much. He just told me to keep an eye on you and not let you leave, whatever I had to do. Except not to hurt you.”


Chapter 5