"I'M SCARED..."
How can NYPD homicide detective Aiden Flynn ignore such a desperate e-mail, even if it is addressed to his neighbor, fellow police officer Ryan Hill? Aiden's sole purpose in Ryan's apartment is to tend to the man's prized orchids while he's away on vacation. But he can't resist tinkering with Ryan's state of the art computer, or stealing a peek at an urgent e-mail from across the sea...
The cryptic message only raises questions. Why does the sender, an English photographer, refer to Ryan as "Sam?" Why has her flat been ransacked? And why is she fleeing to New York—and to a man she's never met?
Convinced that his neighbor is up to no good—and certain the unsuspecting woman is about to walk into a trap—Aiden races to the airport. Posing as the mysterious Sam, he comes face to face with the beguiling Olivia FitzDurham. He'd expected a plain, terrified, unstable spinster. What he finds is a forthright charmer who is as sensible as her sturdy shoes, and whose proper British facade can't quite conceal a sensual feminity.
Unwilling to confess that he's not the "Sam" she thinks he is, Aiden vows to protect Olivia from Ryan and his cohorts—a shadowy, yet bumbling ring of art thieves desperate to get their hands on her incriminating photos of a crime scene. Soon a harrowing, deadly game of cat and mouse whisks Aiden and Olivia from East Coast to West, to England's distant shores, and back to Hell's Kitchen. Along the way, they learn just how dangerous incompetent villains can be—and just how quickly passion heats up when the stakes are high and the quarters are close...
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