Already Gone: Phoenix
Agency – a Kindle Worlds novella
Book
1 – Zero Go Series By Stephanie Queen
Blurb:
If
Dr. Vicky didn’t save the cartel leader’s lousy life, he’d promised to take her
sister’s life in payment.
It
was Phoenix Agency operative Roman Danski’s mission to escort Vicky into
Reynosa, protect her while she saved the notorious thug with her gift for
healing and then get her back out.
It would have been doable if the doc hadn’t been a luscious siren, the kind of woman he never could resist. Her sensual beauty was going to make a tough job impossible.
How could Roman stop the cartel boss from keeping her if he couldn’t resist her himself?
It would have been doable if the doc hadn’t been a luscious siren, the kind of woman he never could resist. Her sensual beauty was going to make a tough job impossible.
How could Roman stop the cartel boss from keeping her if he couldn’t resist her himself?
Excerpt: The Phoenix Agency
They
served their country in every branch of the military—Army Delta
Force, SEALs, Air Force, Marines. They are pilots, snipers, medics – whatever the job calls for. And now as
private citizens they serve in other capacities: as private contractors
training security for defense contractors, as black ops eradicating drug
dealers, as trained operatives ferreting out traitors. With the women in their lives, who each have a unique
psychic ability, they are a force to be reckoned with. Risen from the ashes of
war, they continue to fight for those in need. They are Phoenix.
ALREADY
GONE
Chapter 1
Roman Danski arrived at the location for
his assigned protection detail ahead of schedule. It was a long, low ranch
house with a terra-cotta roof, a small greenish-brown front lawn, and an empty
one-car driveway in a better-than-mean-income neighborhood. His watch told him
he was fifteen minutes early.
Apparently, he wasn’t early enough. It looked like the damn
doc had flown the coop. Had she been crazy enough to head for Mexico without
him? Or more likely, the Gulf cartel boys had come and taken her themselves
against everything that had been agreed.
Why
was he not surprised?
Either way, he was dead meat—they were both dead meat—unless he caught up with her in a hurry.
Those were the thoughts running through
his head as he’d left his Jeep
in the driveway, then sped into the house and through the rooms. He went out
the back door and ran from the back yard to the corner of the boxy house
heading to the front where he’d
parked his Jeep six seconds before. No more than that.
He never saw it coming.
She hit him and he almost went down.
Almost, but not quite. He grabbed her and held on while she screamed, pulling
her back around the corner of the house with him in case anyone was looking.
He didn’t know why he bothered to hide, because
if they were out there, they sure as hell had heard her.
“What the hell?” She got out the words before he clamped
his hand over her mouth, gathering himself from the hit he’d taken.
“I’m
going to take my hand off your mouth, but don’t scream. I’m Roman Danski. Phoenix Agency. I was
assigned to bring you in.”
He removed his hand.
“What were you doing sneaking around my
house—I could have
killed you.”
“What
were you doing hiding? I thought you were gone—or worse.”
She
shifted in his arms, pulling her shirt down and exposing a mound of luscious
breast. He hadn’t realized that his assignment, Dr. Victoria White, was a
gorgeous young lady, but man oh man, was she ever. He’d expected someone more…
studious.
Great. Just damn great.
USA
Today Bestselling Author Stephanie Queen is a romantic at heart and a writer by
nature. So of course, she loves creating stories where the good guys always
win–and they always fall in love along the way. Although she’s lost count of
all the jobs she had before she settled on being a Novelist, her favorite was
selling cookies as a Keebler Elf. She is a graduate of UConn (go Huskies!) and
Harvard U and lives in New Hampshire with her family, her cat, Kitty. Connect with stephanie here:
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