Hot Zone (Agnew)

Hot Zone #1Successful computer software engineer Eve Carmichael melts under yet another hotter than hot letter written by Reserve army soldier Sean O'Callahan. Yet Eve can't take the thought of his life in danger overseas, and she resolves that she needs to get a sex life and a life period. That means forgetting Sean before anything bad can happen to him. Sean finds his buddy Eve's letters to be the only lifeline in his increasingly chaotic world. When their feelings grow hot and heavy, he can't wait to return home and kindle the pure firepower he's capable of.

Hot Zone #2She's archaeology, he's Special Ops, and both of them teeter on the edge of stepping into the HOT ZONE...She wants the adventure of a lifetime and isn't willing to sacrifice it for any man…Archaeologist Fredricka "Freddie" Bodine returns to her hometown for her twentieth high school reunion, unaware that her old crush, Keith Wallace, has blown back into town. A single memory is etched deeply on her brain-the high school prom where she shared an emotionally revealing dance with him. They'd both left town after graduation, feelings unresolved and teen angst firmly in place.All he wants is to keep the girl he loved and lost safe, even if she hates him for it…Keith doesn't want her to travel to Los Diablos, an area near ancient ruins where his sister was killed years ago. As they grapple with family pressures and the exploding passion between them, their battle of wills may just lead them to the truth living in both their hearts.

Hot Zone #3Sometimes a woman craves, sometimes a man wants. When the two collide, it's guaranteed to pitch them straight into the danger lurking within the HOT ZONE.Marisa Clyde wants nothing to do with the soldier who is acting as a temporary bouncer in her uncle's tavern. Stoic and over six feet of smoldering masculinity, the hunk helped rescue her during a tour gone bad in Mexico. During those few short moments after she first met him, the tension between them screamed off the charts. A devastating hurt in the past blocks her willingness to surrender to him. If she can wait him out now, he'll only be in town a month and then he's out of her life.Jake Sullivan watches Marisa like a hawk, well aware his need to protect is messing with his mind and making him care for Marisa way more than he should. Priding himself on clinical detachment in the game between man and woman, he figures once he's slept with her, she'll be out of his system for good. But that's before he experiences her on a deeper level and learns she just might be in danger again.

Hot Zone #4When all hell breaks loose, sometimes you need someone to cover you in the HOT ZONE.Neena Williamson struggles to keep her high-pressure job from overwhelming her, and she thinks the demons of her past have long since disappeared. One night, she sees a man wearing the most hideous Hawaiian shirt on earth and vows he'd never fit her image of a hot bod for a local charity's new hot male calendar. Then the evening erupts in violence, and he proves that first impressions can be dead wrong.Mitch Gilroy hides in plain sight, enjoying his low-key handyman job. His former life isn't open for discussion, and Clarksville, Wyoming is the perfect place to find peace. Then a gunman forces his hand, and Mitch must remember everything he's tried so hard to forget. Thrown together, Neena and Mitch quickly discover how tangled their emotions can become, and only by working together can they banish the monsters that haunt them and heal a lifetime of regrets.

Hot Zone #5It's make or break time…Betrayal seems to follow Lucy Creed wherever she goes. With visions of her military-issue boyfriend kissing another woman dancing in her head, she stomps into a local bar, ready, willing and-hell, yeah-able to hook up for New Year's Eve.The first man who brings her inner wild thing to attention is one delicious hunk with "perfect one-night stand" stamped all over him. He also turns out to be the all-grown-up version of a young man she blew off in high school. And damn it, he's the one thing she's sworn off: military.In Major Vic Moore's mind, Lucy is the one that got away. Now that she's popped up on his radar, the temptation to let their mutual desire burn is too intense to ignore. It also sends up red flags-he's fresh from a relationship that almost ruined his career.Yet their scorching chemistry is too strong to ignore, and Vic finds himself going all out to change her well-entrenched ideas about military men. But as their secrets spill out, the weight of the past may be too much for their fragile trust to bear.