Ubasi, Africa - Present Day

When four undercover CIA Agents are murdered in the signature style of the deceased mercenary Peter Laroque, Force du Sable (FDS) sends Dr. Emily Carlin to Ubasi to profile its dictator, Jean-Charles Laroque. It is up to Emily to determine whether Jean-Charles, a former mercenary who arrived in Ubasi a year earlier and ousted the dictator, should be captured or assassinated. As Emily gets to know Jean, she sees a man much different from the tyrannical ruler the world claims him to be. She sees someone who is putting the good of the people first, a man willing to fight and even die for what he believes in. And, a man she finds herself dangerously attracted to. Jean is not a man who forgives a betrayal, and if he ever learns of the lies Emily has told him, or her true purpose in Ubasi, Emily’s heart won’t be the only thing she’s in danger of losing.

SEDUCING THE MERCENARY is an intense romantic suspense. Emily is a psychologist who is an expert on dominant men. Her interest in studying them stems from her childhood and her own attraction and subsequent inability to trust herself with this type of man. This makes profiling Laroque dangerous on both a professional and a personal level, but Emily has never been one to shy away from doing what needs to be done. FDS is working with the United States to bring the former dictator back into power, and it will be Emily’s profile that decides what needs to be done with Laroque. While Emily hides her true purpose from Laroque, he also has his secrets, but at the risk of spoiling the book, I’ll leave those secrets for the reader to find out.

Though this book is part of the Shadow Soldiers series, the main focus of SEDUCING THE MERCENARY is on Emily and Jean and the events surrounding Ubasi. A compelling story led by equally compelling characters, don’t miss SEDUCING THE MERCENARY.

Jennifer Bishop