Red Heat

Description

Multi-award-winning author Nina bruhns spins a tale of high-stakes espionage and compelling desire in her newest page-turning romantic thriller... When CIA analyst Julie Severin's father was killed in Moscow as a spy, she vowed never to trust a Russian again. But she finds that promise difficult to keep when she lands an unlikely mission posing as a reporter on board a Russian submarine - commanded by Captain Nikolai Romanov, the very same devilishly handsome stranger she had a sizzingly encounter with the night before. Under Arctic ice their passion wuickly heats, along with Nikolai's grave suspicions about Julie's true reason for being on the international scientific exploration. Keeping the American spy under close surveillance leads to stolen pleasures. But neither Nikolai nor Julie suspects there is another enemy spy in their midst... until the sitatuion explodes into their worst nightmare, and the lovers' hard-earned trust - and loyalty to opposing countries - is put to the ultimate test... along with their growing forbidden love. PRAISE FOR NINA BRUHNS 'High-action suspense at its very best!' - Debra Webb, bestselling author 'A thrill ride from start to finish!' - Rebecca York, USA Today bestselling author 'Provocative and sexy.' - Tamar Myers, award-winning author

Nina Bruhns credits her gypsy great-grandfather for her great love of adventure. She has lived and traveled all over the world, including a six-year stint in Sweden. She has two graduate degrees in archaeology (with a specialty in Egyptology), and like her idol Indiana Jones, has been on scientific expeditions from California to Spain to Egypt and the Sudan. All this has been great fodder for her books. Currently an author for Berkley, Silhouette Nocturne and Silhouette Romantic Suspense, Nina's many adventures give her stories a colorful dimension and allow her to create vivid settings and characters that are out of the ordinary. She has earned two RITA nominations, and has won numerous other awards for her published books, including the prestigious National Readers Choice Award, three Daphne du Maurier Awards of Excellence for Overall Best Romantic Suspense of the year, five Dorothy Parker Awards, several RT BookClub Reviewers Awards, as well as having her books named Best Series Book of the Year by more than one online review site. A native of Canada, Nina grew up in California and currently resides in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband and three children.