Who needs a prince when there’s a sexy soldier in your bunk? Hoo rah!
Red, Hot, & Blue, Book 9
Sergeant Ryan Pettit blogs anonymously as Groundpounder, recording
non-confidential details of a deployment where every day feels exactly the
same—until a female reporter shows up at his firebase. And he realizes nothing
will ever be the same again.
Though his orders are clear—protect her, but make her life so
miserable she high tails it back to London—the last thing he wants is to watch
her leave in a cloud of Afghanistan dust.
Intrigued by Groundpounder’s blog posts, Vicki Vanover flirted,
bribed, and outright threatened her way to the front lines outside of Kandahar.
Nothing has ever stopped her from getting a story, but an accidental night in
Ryan’s bunk is a distraction—and attraction—she never anticipated.
Yet Afghanistan leaves Vicki with more questions than answers. Why
won’t Ryan let her anywhere near the local women she wants to interview? Who is
the mysterious, red-headed Lt. Wales everyone treats with such deference? Worst
of all, why is watching Ryan run toward danger, instead of away from it, enough
to stop her heart?
This book has been previously published.
Product Warnings
Contains super-hot sexual encounters in the war zone.
EXCERPT (G)
“Hawk, what
the hell are you doing with a reporter?” And can I take her off your hands
for maybe an hour…or a week?
Ryan pushed
that naughty thought aside. For now. Unlike Hawk, who’d written off the entire
profession as evil, Ryan was willing to give them a chance individually.
Particularly the hot one who was now in his hut.
“Apparently I
temporarily lost my sanity.” Hawk took a step closer to Ryan. “The damn woman
offered to have sex with me if I brought her here so she could write a damn
story about the local women.”
Ryan’s eyes
flew open wide just as his cock woke up a bit at that information. How come
things like this never happened to him? “And did you… I mean did she…”
Hawk’s deeply
furrowed frown silenced the rest of Ryan’s stuttered question. “No. Of course
not. Jeez, Pettit. I’m not going to cheat on Emily. Not with any woman, but
especially not with a reporter.”
Ryan stood
corrected…and hopeful. “Sorry. So why did you agree to bring her here then?”
Hawk sighed.
“She’s totally clueless about pretty much everything, and if I didn’t take her
with me she just would have found someone else to do it. Some guy who probably would have taken her up on her
ridiculous offer. Suddenly, I pictured Emily wandering around Bagram just as
clueless and helpless in the middle of that prison break and hell, I don’t know…”
“Your
protective side kicked in?” Ryan grinned.
“Yeah.”
Shaking his head, Hawk sighed. “So here she is, and what the hell I’m gonna do
with her now, I don’t know.”
Ryan, who was
extremely well-versed in the cramped lodging situation on base ever since the
collapse, considered the logistics of having not only an extra body to deal
with, but a hot, shapely female body, no less. He knew where he’d like her to
sleep, but he didn’t think Hawk would take kindly to Ryan stashing the woman in
his own bunk, so he came up with an alternate suggestion.
“Well, I guess
she could sleep in the war room. Or even better, in the backroom of the
operations center. At least there’s always someone on duty in there so she
won’t be alone.”
“I guess.”
Hawk sighed. His leader looked pretty helpless for a man who usually had all
the answers. The mighty Hawk, taken down by a single female. It was the most
amusing thing Ryan had seen in a while.
”Listen,
Pettit, I have to go unload this wad of cash I’m carrying and explain to the
higher ups why I came home with a woman. Can you go in and make sure she’s
okay?”
“Sure thing,
Hawk.” Ryan nodded. Easiest assignment he’d been given in a long time.
“Better make
sure she’s not snooping around either, looking for some big story. And do not
make her time here easy on her, Pettit. I mean it. I want her so miserable
she’s begging for me to call Lou to take her back. The sooner the better.” An
evil grin crossed Hawk’s face. “In fact, why don’t you show her the
pee tubes? That should be enough to send this girly
girl running for home where she can get a manicure or something.”
Ryan laughed.
“Probably. Okay, Hawk. I’ll do my best.”
Hawk turned to
go, then halted. “Oh and Pettit? I’m pretty sure she still thinks I’m going to
collect on her little offer. Don’t tell her any differently. I want to scare
her enough she’ll never do anything that stupid again. Got it?”
“Gotcha.”
SAMHAIN STORE (Read
an alternate excerpt at Samhain)
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