Someone To Protect Her. Patricia Rosemoor

      Only an idiot would have kissed the stubborn scientist…

      And maybe Frank was. What had he been thinking? This was no romantic tryst, but a serious situation. Not that romance was his specialty, anyway. Every man had deficiencies, and that happened to be his.

      Realizing she hadn’t budged from her precarious spot on the edge of the slope, he cursed. He had to get her down. “What are you waiting for?”

      “For hell to freeze over!” she yelled back in a very unladylike manner.

      “Consider it frozen! Don’t make me come up there, C.J., or so help me—”

      “What? What is it you’ll do to me?”

      He heard the panic in her voice, and thought quickly of how he could defuse it. “I’ll kiss you again! Only I won’t stop there—I’ll touch you in places you didn’t know you had. Before I’m through, you’ll be begging me to make love to you!”

      Dear Harlequin Intrigue Reader,

      What’s bigger than Texas…? Montana! This month, Harlequin Intrigue takes you deep undercover to the offices of MONTANA CONFIDENTIAL. You loved the series when it first premiered in the Lone Star State, so we’ve created a brand-new set of sexy cowboy agents for you farther north in Big Sky country. Patricia Rosemoor gets things started in Someone To Protect Her. Three more installments follow—and I can assure you, you won’t want to miss one!

      Amanda Stevens concludes her dramatic EDEN’S CHILDREN miniseries with The Forgiven. All comes full circle in this redemptive story that reunites mother and child.

      What would you do if your “wife” came back from the dead? Look for In His Wife’s Name for the answer. In a very compelling scenario, Joyce Sullivan explores the consequences of a hidden identity and a desperate search for the truth.

      Rounding out the month is the companion story to Harper Allen’s miniseries THE AVENGERS. Sullivan’s Last Stand, like its counterpart Guarding Jane Doe, is a deeply emotional story about a soldier of fortune and his dedication to duty. Be sure to pick up both titles by this exceptional new author.

      Cowboys, cops—action, drama…it’s just another month of terrific romantic suspense from Harlequin Intrigue.

      Happy reading!

      Sincerely,

      Denise O’Sullivan

      Associate Senior Editor

      Harlequin Intrigue

      Someone to Protect Her

      Patricia Rosemoor

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Patricia Rosemoor is the recipient of the 1997 Career Achievement Award in Romantic Suspense from Romantic Times Magazine. To research her novels, Patricia is willing to swim with dolphins, round up mustangs or howl with wolves…. “Whatever it takes to write a credible tale.” She even went to jail for a day—as a guest of Cook County—to research a proposal. Ms. Rosemoor holds a Master of Television degree and a B.A. degree in American literature from the University of Illinois. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Edward, and their three cats.

      Books by Patricia Rosemoor

      HARLEQUIN INTRIGUE

      38—DOUBLE IMAGES

      55—DANGEROUS ILLUSIONS

      74—DEATH SPIRAL

      81—CRIMSON HOLIDAY

      95—AMBUSHED

      113—DO UNTO OTHERS

      121—TICKET TO NOWHERE

      161—PUSHED TO THE LIMIT

      163—SQUARING ACCOUNTS

      165—NO HOLDS BARRED

      199—THE KISS OF DEATH

      219—TORCH JOB

      243—DEAD HEAT

      250—HAUNTED

      283—SILENT SEA

      291—CRIMSON NIGHTMARE

      317—DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

      346—THE DESPERADO

      361—LUCKY DEVIL

      382—SEE ME IN YOUR DREAMS*

      386—TELL ME NO LIES*

      390—TOUCH ME IN THE DARK*

      439—BEFORE THE FALL

      451—AFTER THE DARK

      483—NEVER CRY WOLF*

      499—A LOVER AWAITS

      530—COWBOY JUSTICE

      559—HEART OF A LAWMAN†

      563—THE LONE WOLF’S CHILD†

      567—A RANCHER’S VOW†

      629—SOMEONE TO PROTECT HER

      CAST OF CHARACTERS

      Frank Connolly—The former military pilot vows to protect his charge with his life.

      C. J. Birch—The brilliant scientist is knowledgeable about everything but men.

      Gilad—The mercenary’s mission is to convert or kill C.J. His reputation is on the line, and he has never failed yet.

      Jewel McMurty—The adolescent experiences the pangs of first love for Frank.

      Daniel Austin—The Montana Confidential team leader is faced with stopping danger from several directions at once.

      Knowing nothing about planes, flying or transporting horses by air when I started this book, I must give credit to those who gave me the information I needed to select the correct plane that could both transport horses and land in the mountains and to write a realistic controlled crash.

      Thanks to writers Vickie Spears, Cassandra Blizzard, Mary Adamski and Harriet Robbins Ackert. To pilot Clifford Wells and his wife, D.J. And to horse transporter Carl Webster.

      Contents

       Prologue

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven