Blurb:
Undercover Interpol agent Natasha Itsov is the ice queen of the European shifter world. Her reputation for loving and leaving without a second thought is well known. Until she met Darren Martel, another fox shifter. She broke both of their hearts when she ran from the bond forming between them.
It’s been years since they’ve crossed paths with each other.
The threat of the Auctioneer looming over Ivy brings the two shifters together for one last mission. Old wounds are reopened, while they struggle to ignore the bond formed all those years ago. Neither wants to risk another catastrophic broken heart, yet neither wants to walk away from the chance of happily ever after.
Is it ever too late for love?
Natasha is the second book of the Blackbird series by Dahlia Donovan. Book one, Ivy, is currently for sale on Amazon, Nook & Smashwords.
Excerpt
“Get in here, girl.” Marin Petrov
pounded on his desk. Natasha heard it echo all the way in her own
office.
Jolting from the forms she had been
filling out for his next business trip, Natasha slid her
feet into her black stilettos and quickly made her way from her
office into his. The absurdity of one of the worst human traffickers
in Europe having an office fit for a lawyer never ceased to strike
her as disturbingly or perhaps disgustingly normal. She kept
her expression blank and bored when she stepped in front of him.
His gaze drifted, as it always did,
from her pointed heels along her stockings to her leather skirt and
white buttoned blouse. Natasha raised an eyebrow at him. She never
let him intimidate her. It was why he’d kept her alive when most of
his secretaries met untimely accidents when their
noses strayed too far into his business.
“We’re moving to Kiev.” Petrov
tossed a stack of papers in her direction. She crouched down to
retrieve them, careful not to give him the view he wanted. “Get it
organised. Now.”
Natasha nodded politely and exited the
office as quickly as she had entered it. Her disgust for the man was
difficult to mask at times. Of all the undercover assignments Natasha
Itsov had taken for Interpol, she thought working with the Auctioneer
might possibly be the worst. She glanced briefly down at the
documents in her hands and froze when a familiar name caught her
attention.
Blackbird Security Firm.
The last time Natasha had dealt with
Blackbird there had been complications. Major complications. She
wondered briefly about the broken-hearted man she had left behind.
Poor Darren. A smile briefly flashed across her face.
It lit up her icy blue eyes. Her full lips slowly dropped down into a
frown though as she considered the implications of Petrov’s
interest in the security firm.
She had met Darren Martel when they
worked on a joint-task force many years ago on a human trafficking
case for the International Criminal Court. Their affair had been
brief but fiery. She could still picture every inch of his freckled
skin in her mind and had frequent dreams about tying him to her bed.
Oh, sweet Darren.
Why would Petrov be interested in
Blackbird?
It was a question still plaguing
Natasha several days later while setting up the office in Kiev. She
heard rumours of a new girl Petrov had gone to Moldova to grab. Her
Interpol handler told her they’d almost captured him there. They
grabbed another slimy bastard instead, Valentin Krupin. Steven
Samuels and Gareth Richardson from Blackbird had contacted them with
the info but the wolves were gone with the girl before they arrived.
Her fingers itched to pick up her
telephone, but it was too risky for direct contact. Petrov would kill
her if he found out, and Interpol wouldn’t be pleased with her
either if she ruined years of undercover work. Natasha finally
decided to create a dummy e-mail account. She used old codes Darren
would remember to let him know where she was, what she was doing and
warn him about the Auctioneer.
Her krasnij lis.
Her red fox.
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About Dahlia:
Dahlia Donovan started out
working in the insurance world. After ten years, she morphed her love
of investigating accidents and studying people into writing about
them. She's a bit of a hermit and despises being in front of a
camera. Her life wouldn't be complete without her husband and her
massive collection of books and video games.
Her first novel Ivy started out
as a crazy dream which she turned into an adventurous and suspenseful
paranormal romance. Her second novel Natasha is schedule for release
at the end of August. It will be followed by an Ivy short story
titled Masquerade sometime in the autumn. A third novel in the
Blackbird series, Alicia, will come out in 2015.
Readers can find Under Fire, a
free short story available to all her newsletter subscribers. See her
website for more details.
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