Ancient Danger
By Jo-Ann Carson
Series: Mata Hari, #3
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Cover Designer: Nina French
Out April 1, 2015
A single woman — A complicated life
International, super-model Sadie Stewart meets her Dutch lover,
Sebastian Wilde, in Venice to celebrate their six month anniversary. But having
lived a double life as a CIA operative for ten years, her life is never simple.
During a costume ball in an ancient Venetian palace, an assassin
tries to kill her. As a result Sebastian gets ridiculously, over-protective,
which drives her crazy. Her old boss offers to help her, but wants something in
return.
Bakari al-Sharif, an arms-dealer with an insatiable thirst for
power, is planning to steal King Tutankhamen’s scarab from Highclere castle
near London. Sadie is the only person who has ever gotten close to al-Sharif
and lived. The CIA wants her to stop him.
Or at least that’s what they say. When it comes to the world of
espionage, the true motivation of the players is never clear.
Can Sadie return to the life of a spook and maintain a relationship
with Sebastian? Can she nail the arms-dealer? And why did the masked man try to
kill her?
Life is complicated for Sadie Stewart.
A cross between Indiana Jones and Covert Affairs
Introduction
to the heroine:
Stifling
the desire to scream, Sadie stood on top of the fourteenth-century Venetian
palazzo looking out over the lagoon and its islands. No point risking the lives
of others. She took a deep breath of the salty air blowing in off the Adriatic
Sea. The red-tiled rooftops, round domes and cathedral spires of the ancient
city spread to the west. For hundreds of years noblemen had used this perch to
watch the arrival of merchant ships from the Orient with their exotic wares.
Now it had become her trap.
Below,
an opera singer in the bow of a gondola serenaded young lovers nestled inside,
while the gondolier at the stern in his blue and white striped shirt navigated
the still night waters. Venice, a city steeped in history and secrets, a place
where anything could happen in a heartbeat and did; a sanctuary for people like
her who wanted to disappear…
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Introduction
to the two bad guys:
Bakari
assessed people with speed and precision. In his business an accurate
understanding of people was a matter of life and death. Khalid had a
Frankenstein look about him, like a man not fully grown into himself, a man who
could be dangerous, a shell waiting for its heart. Daring, possibly unstable,
but surely not as dangerous as Djeserit had claimed.
Suspicion
played across the light in the young man’s eyes and he leaned his lanky body
back in his chair. “My name is Khalid Badru. Do I know you?”
The
words hit Bakari like a thousand grenades, unleashing a toxic mixture of regret
and anger within. “Not yet.”
Maybe
he should have just had him killed, as his brother had suggested. No. That
wouldn’t be right. If anyone killed this man, it would have to be him. But the
man was barely more than a boy. A boy with his blood. Bakari wanted to give him
a chance.
Book 1: Covert Danger
Book 2: Born of
Magic
Jo-Ann Carson has lived most of her life on islands off the west
coast of Canada, surrounded by snow covered mountains, lush rain forests and
pristine beaches.
Growing up, she dreamed of traveling the world like James Bond,
finding archeological treasures like Indiana Jones, and finding true love. In
her Mata Hari Series she combines elements of adventure, danger and steamy
romance.
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