Sultry Chicago

Crossfire Textile magnate and CEO Peyton Scott-Baird travels to Savannah in the hope of securing an agreement to realize her life-long dream of manufacturing personal protective wear. The last person she expected to meet with is her closest childhood friend-one she had not seen or heard from in seventeen years-following a tragic accident that claimed the lives of their loved ones. For ex-Army Ranger Connor Gallagher, the reunion with his teenage crush is bittersweet, triggering haunting memories of a time when his life was in turmoil. As the newly minted vice president of Gallagher Incorporated, a Chicago-based, family-owned fashion house, he jumps at the opportunity to develop body armor to safeguard his fellow brothers in arms. The reunion is thrown into disarray when a ruthless assassin ambushes them. Their assigned SPNI private security detail, ex-MI6 operative Nia Munro and Gallagher's former teammate and commanding officer, Ewan Kane, risk everything to save their lives. Caught in the crossfire, the group is forced to go dark and on the run. Still reeling from the recent suspicious death of her father, Peyton flees for her life while contending with the unscrupulous vixen who claims to be his widowed wife-and his only rightful heir. Faced with an impossible choice to safeguard her life's work and Scott-Baird Industries, Peyton throws caution to the wind and rushes headlong into the waiting arms of the only man she has ever loved. Connor's sister and renowned fashion designer Brinn Gallagher gets roped into designing the enhanced ballistic wearables. She is inadvertently drawn into the conflict when small time crooks mistake her for Peyton. With her family in the line of fire, Brinn must overcome her own fears and conquer her inner demons to survive. Crossfire is the first book in the Sultry Chicago suspense series. The characters are compelled to come to terms with their shared painful past, finally face the nightmares and secrets that still torment them... or simply perish.

Renowned fashion designer Brinn Gallagher's life is upended when she is ensnared in a risky cat and mouse spy game involving an old college acquaintance. Paired with her archnemesis, cunning undercover CIA operative Carmen Foxdale, Brinn is carted off to Sicily and forced to walk a tightrope between self-preservations and self-destruction. Watched closely and bereft of family support for weeks on end, Brinn licks her wounds from a recent breakup, adding to her misery. An unrelenting Mediterranean heat wave and the unwanted advances from an entitled entrepreneur amplify her discomfort and push her to the brink of madness. Lawyer Palmer Westicott throws himself into his work to take his mind off his heartbreak. His arrival in Italy to negotiate an international contract is complicated when he is brought face to face with the woman who ghosted him. Worse still, he must watch Brinn interact with the new man in her life-and the sly spy who had almost gotten her killed. Ross Gallagher, chief financial officer of Gallagher Incorporated, a Chicago-based, family-owned fashion house, returns home from an off grid retreat only to find his sister missing and staying with the one man he had beaten up years earlier in a fit of rage. Worried and guilt-ridden by his decision to withhold what had happened to Brinn during that long-ago night drives him to enlist help to rescue her. Private security contractor and former hostage negotiator, SPNI Agent Nadia Kapoor, poses as Ross's fiancée on a mission to extract Brinn. Their arrival in Sicily makes it clear that they are in over their heads and will need to pull out all the stops to survive. Fleeing in the dead of night through a treacherous stormfront leaves the group stranded in the Republic of Tunisia, Africa. Wounded and out of options, they take refuge with a person from Nadia's past with whom she had lost all contact-her mother. Tightrope is the second book in the Sultry Chicago romantic suspense series. The characters face personally intense, challenging situations and are confronted by the darkest aspects of society. Fighting off dangerously unwelcomed advances and more that place their lives on the line, they are compelled to set aside their differences and work together in order to make their escape.

Private security contractor Nadia Kapoor has spent the last couple of months recuperating from injuries sustained during a daring rescue mission involving fashionista Brinn Gallagher in Sicily and Tunisia. The SPNI agent is finally cleared for full field duty while navigating the intricacies of her blossoming relationship with Brinn's brother, Ross. Kapoor's first assignment back entails providing security for a wealthy foreign businessman, Kabir Aslam, who is visiting the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois. Unbeknownst to Nadia, her meddling and estranged mother, Mahira, orchestrated this undertaking to coerce her into meeting the man her family is desperate for her to marry. The ensuing public confrontation throws her life into disarray. All Nadia has known further comes apart at the seams when Mahira and Kabir are violently abducted and her previously thought of as deceased father steamrolls into her life. Ross Gallagher, chief financial officer at Gallagher Incorporated, a family-owned Chicago-based fashion house, is balancing on a tightrope between fear of hurting Nadia and deepening his romance with her. He gets caught in the crossfire as mercenaries attack Kapoor's apartment and he is forced to flee for his life. Still reeling after their narrow escapes, Ross and Nadia are swept into the shadowy world of espionage with her Pakistani spymaster father. Their cross-country race against time to save the abductees leads them to San Francisco and a deadly confrontation on the infamous prison island of Alcatraz. Ex-Army Ranger Ewan Kane investigates the sudden disappearance of his SPNI colleague and friend, Nadia, along with Ross. With no active lines of inquiry and hope fading of finding them alive, he travels to California with Maggie Gordon after she receives a seemingly random text message believed to be from Kapoor. This last-ditch attempt at obtaining answers drag them both into the firing line. Nadia's murky family secrets and shady business dealings threaten to destroy everything in their path. Precipice is the third book in the Sultry Chicago romantic suspense series. Long-hidden truths are exposed while the characters scramble to come to terms with their new reality and the choices that continue to bind and haunt them.