Tempting the Fire

Zusatztext   “Sydney Croft writes the kind of books I love to read!”—Lara Adrian! author of Shades of Midnight Informationen zum Autor Sydney Croft Klappentext EXTREME HEAT. EXTREME HUNGER. A JUNGLE EDEN ABLAZE WITH TEMPTATION. Deep in the Brazilian rain forest, a team of Navy SEALs has been nearly wiped out by something sinister and superhuman, sending shock waves through the Agency for Covert Rare Operatives (ACRO). Now ACRO agents Sela Kahne and Marlena West head to the world's most unforgiving jungle to find and kill a mythical monstrosity with a taste for human blood. But to succeed in their mission, they will need the help of two men, each hiding his own dark secret. Sela is an expert on cryptozoology with a sideline skill that could prove invaluable: When she makes love to a man, she engulfs his innermost thoughts. Teamed with Marlena, Sela makes contact with the lone SEAL survivor, Chance McCormack. Meanwhile, Logan Mills, the man who rescued Chance, leads his private company on a hunt that has nothing to do with saving lives. Soon, Sela will put her supernatural charms to work on Logan, determined to extract information about the creature they are seeking. But in this sweat-drenched realm of danger and deception, Logan is more than just a passive target. He has the power to lead a highly trained seducer into a jungle without any rules, without any limits-and with no end to the heat. Chapter One   Sela Kahne sat at her desk, staring at the computer screen and wondering why she hadn’t taken one more day of vacation time. An extra day would have meant another layer of tan on her normally pale skin, another couple of chapters of the latest James Patterson novel read and a few more hours’ reprieve from typing up reports that all said the same thing in conclusion: HOAX .   She sighed heavily and reached for the bag of Skittles she kept on her desk. She popped two into her mouth and cringed. She’d lost a filling during her vacation and desperately needed to see a dentist.   “ACRO’s dentists are the best in the area,” Torrence Olivia, the only other psychic besides Sela who worked in the agency’s Covert Rare Operatives’ Cryptozoology department, said as she walked by.   “I hate it when you do that,” Sela grumbled, mainly because her own psychic ability was restricted to reading people only during orgasm.   “Hon, I didn’t do anything. You have dentist written on your to- do list.” Torr tapped the notepad next to the computer with a crimson- painted nail.   “Oh.”   “What’s wrong?” Torrence crossed her arms over her chest, her dark skin contrasting beautifully with her cream blouse. “You just got back from vacation. You should be vibrant. Unless . . . was Puerto Rico not as relaxing as it should have been?”   Sela stiffened. “How did you know I was in Puerto Rico?”   “Hello?” Torr tapped her temple. “Psychic.”   She never knew whether or not Torr was kidding when she said things like that, but given that Sela had told everyone, including her immediate boss, Mitch, she was going to the Bahamas, she could only assume that Torrence had gone psychic on her.   “You didn’t tell anyone, did you?” Not that her change of plans had been a huge secret, but she was supposed to have been drinking fruity cocktails on a beach instead of investigating the origins of el chupacabra.   She couldn’t wait to debunk the myth of the “goat sucker” once and for all. Confirming that the crazy things people believed in were false was a passion of hers, and it made her one of the few cryptozoologists in the field who was in it to dis prove mythical creatures’ existence.   And the cryptid she wanted the most to prove didn’t exist was the one highlighted in the book in front of her, Chupacabra: Myth No More . The author, an eccentric, egomaniac billionaire she’...

Product details

• Authors: Sydney Croft
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2010
• EAN: 9780385342285
• ISBN: 978-0-385-34228-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Series: ACRO World; ACRO World
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature