by Eve Devon
“Well, first he was at a graveyard.”
“A graveyard?”
“Here in Zarrenburg.”
“It doesn’t make sense. Is he connected, then? How?”
“I have no idea, but he’s now on a plane back to San Francisco.”
“He’s going back to Steel Hawk? Something’s not right. He wouldn’t just do that without leaving any word.”
“Honeysuckle, if he has betrayed Steel Hawk—if he is linked in any way to what has happened here today, I know you don’t want to believe it, but we have to investigate him.”
“I actually agree.”
“You do?”
“And I know just the person to help us. Did I happen to mention my sister, Sophie, is a private investigator? If Edward is hiding something, she’ll find it. She’s like you. Once you give her a puzzle…”
“He doesn’t stand a chance, does he?”
“No. Believe me, my tenacious sister is more than a match for Edward Long. Call it in to Max, and I’ll phone Sophie.”
* * * * *
In his apartment overlooking the Zarrenburg Mountains, Rufus de Burgh was glued to the television news coverage of the damage done to the castle. It would take months to rebuild, even longer for them to feel safe again.
Excitement beat under his skin.
“Rufus, are you coming to bed?”
He turned to where Monique lounged against the doorframe, waiting for him.
Smiling, he rose from the leather sofa, shut off the television with the remote, and wandered into the bedroom to join her.
Phase two would start tomorrow.
Brother dear wasn’t going to know what hit him.
About the Author
Eve Devon writes sexy heroes, sassy heroines, and happily ever afters…
Growing up in locations like Botswana and Venezuela gave Eve a taste for adventure and her love for romances began when her mother shoved one into her hands in a desperate attempt to keep her quiet during TV coverage of the Wimbledon tennis finals!
When she wasn’t consuming books by the bucketload, she could be found pretending to be a damsel in distress or running around solving mysteries and writing down her adventures. As a teenager, Eve rewrote countless episodes of TV detective dramas so that the hero and heroine would end up together every week. As an adult, still hooked on romance and mysteries, she worked in a library to conveniently continue reading books by the bucketload, until realizing she herself was destined to write contemporary romance and romantic suspense.
She lives in leafy Surrey in the UK, a book-devouring, slightly melodramatic, romance-writing sassy heroine with her very own sexy-hero husband.
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Don’t miss the other titles in the Steel Hawk Series!
It’s one thing to lose your heart. Quite another to have it stolen.
Steel Hawk, Book 1
Years ago, notorious jewel thief “The Raven” vanished into the shadows. In 1851, Nathan Hawk emerges into a life of respectability, determined to make up for past sins.
He and his business partner are introducing a lock they’re so sure can’t be broken, they’re displaying a priceless diamond, the Pasha Star, at the Great Exhibition. It’s bad enough catching a light-fingered young man trying to steal the stone. Worse when he realizes it’s the daughter of his old mentor.
Rose Valetta’s father has been kidnapped, and she needs the Star to buy his freedom. She never expected to come nose-to-nose with Nathan. Their reunion is fraught with tension, especially when they discover the diamond in Nathan’s impregnable case is not the Pasha Star.
With Nathan’s reputation in tatters, they race to find the real stone before it’s too late for Rose’s father. Too late to save the empire from a usurper. And too late to keep from losing their hearts.
Warning: Contains a woman who dreams of a world with a level playing field, and an ex-thief who can run from his past but can’t hide from it.
Keep your lovers close, your enemies closer. Especially if they’re one and the same.
Steel Hawk, Book 3
With Steel Hawk still reeling from explosions at Zarrenburg Castle and at its own headquarters, company lawyer Edward Long’s legendary stoicism has been severely tested. It’s clearly an inside job, and no one is deeper inside than Edward—which leaves him squarely in the center of a frame.
Someone is using him to bring down the company he loves. Worse, the PI that Adam Hawk sends to investigate…there’s something off about her. And something that seriously turns him on.
Operating under an assumed name, Sophie Hawk aims to dig deeper into the company’s systems than any other investigator would dare. Especially with the prime suspect’s hot-chocolate gaze tracking her every move.
As their dueling intellects strike sparks, the rising heat threatens the trip wires Edward has set up around his heart—and the secret that ties him to a man who’ll stop at nothing to claim his right to rule the house of Zarrenburg. Or, if he can’t have it, destroy it—and everyone connected to it.
Warning: Contains agonizingly sweet kisses, dirty thoughts, dirtier talk, mutual trust stretched to the limit, and criminal abuse of a thousand-dollar suit jacket.
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Heart of Steel
Copyright © 2016 by Eve Devon
ISBN: 978-1-61923-377-5
Edited by Linda Ingmanson
Cover by Angela Waters
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