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

Somehow Gary seemed to recognize Frank’s determination. Bullies were cowards. He hadn’t understood that for a long time, but once he did, he quit being afraid. If he could get Mom in a safe house somewhere, he’d end this charade for good. Soon, very soon.As he made himself the promise, he hoped he could convince Kerry to go along with it.


Muttering and grumbling, Gary let himself out.


At that moment, Roy called from the bedroom. “Hey Frank, come on, man. I gotta take a leak and I’m handcuffed to your lady friend here.”


Frank chuckled. “So take her with you.” But he headed for the bedroom, pulling out the handcuff key again. Kerry glared at him as he re-cuffed her to himself and let Roy loose.


“I’m not going to run. I heard you talking out there—that was Gary, I s’pose. Why do you put up with his crap?” She sat on the side of the bed beside him, tense as a racehorse in the gate.


Chapter 10