Of the lot, this man was still her best bet. He not only looked the most inebriated, but the most disreputable lean and hungry and totally without principle. Once he was sober, he would no doubt be easy to buy. Sister Kerry Bishop got more than she bargained for when she entered the seedy bar seeking the services of a man, more particularly a mercenary. Linc ONeal wasnt the soldier of fortune Kerry mistook him forbut he proved to be just as dangerous and twice as unscrupulous. Linc agrees to help Kerry rescue a group of children from a ruthless dictator, but his motivation is far from noble. If they survive what appears to be a suicide mission, he plans to take Kerrys promised fifty thousand dollarsin addition to her bodywhich she provocatively advertised in order to trick him, then withheld. With innocent lives at stake, malevolence and distrust all around, and forbidden desire simmering between them, the steamy atmosphere surrounding Kerry and Linc has little to do with the jungle they must penetrate. Struggling against all odds to stay alive, they discover that their real challenge is to fight the devil within. In a terrifying race to save nine children, Kerry Bishop was in the fight of her life. But she wasn't prepared for a passion almost as dangerous as the mission she had undertaken. At the first, Linc O'Neil appeared to be exactly the kind of man Kerry needed. The kind that would help her steal a truck to get past the guards. Then she discovered her mistake. She had hijacked a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Now he was their last hope. And survival was all they could think about Her plan was foolhardy, but if it was the only way to save nine children, then she would try. He was the most disreputable and dangerous-looking man in the bar--that's why she chose him. Together they fought the odds . . . and the burning hungers that made the steamy days and nights doubly dangerous. Thinking she had included a hardened mercenary in her desperate mission to save nine children, Kerry Bishop is astonished to discover that Linc O'Neil is actually a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and that she is distracted by her growing attraction to him Desperate to get herself and nine motherless children out of the war-torn jungle, Kerry Bishop needs the services of a seasoned mercenary ... but Lincoln O'Neal is no mercenary
