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

She started to lift one arm to brush the hair back from her face. She couldn’t. Her wrist was linked to the arm of the body on her left with what felt like handcuffs. Her right arm was similarly trapped. The lamp on the chest was off now and light leaking through the vertical blind from somewhere outside barely lit the room.


Damn it, what are these weirdos up to? I want out of here!She’d never been comfortable being restrained. Suffering it in the dark made everything worse. A shadowy memory of being stuffed into a closet while her mother entertained male friends niggled at her mind. She’d kept that particular nightmare locked away for a long time, but all at once it was back, like a bogeyman emerging from under the bed.


She sank her teeth firmly into her lower lip to bite back the frantic whimpers wanting to squeak out from deep within. It’s okay. You haven’t been hurt or raped. It’s going to be okay. Come on, girl, be cool. You can do this.


Chapter 6