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    Dangerous Curves: a short-length contemporary romantic suspense novella: STORM Transporters, #1
    Dangerous Curves: a short-length contemporary romantic suspense novella: STORM Transporters, #1
    Dangerous Curves: a short-length contemporary romantic suspense novella: STORM Transporters, #1
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    Dangerous Curves: a short-length contemporary romantic suspense novella: STORM Transporters, #1

    By Nina Bruhns

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    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nina Bruhns presents the first book in her STORM Corps Transporter series of short-length novellas.

    Ex-Marine intelligence officer Darryl Bachmann is in Italy to start his dream job as a transporter for STORM Corps, the prestigious private special ops company his former commander is heading up. His first assignment? To pick up a lady scientist at the airport. Easy, right?

    Wrong.

    Dr. Linnea Gordon might look like a lab mouse in her file photo, but in person, her curves are more deadly than anything Darryl has ever encountered on the road. When someone steals her suitcase—containing the new top-secret drone system she is bringing to his boss—Darryl must jump in to save her and the project, and whisk them away to the safety of a cozy seaside hotel...all while trying to resist the temptation of those amazing—and dangerous—curves.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCajun Hot Press
    Release dateMar 8, 2015
    ISBN9781507006665
    Dangerous Curves: a short-length contemporary romantic suspense novella: STORM Transporters, #1
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    Nina Bruhns

    The mother of five children, Kylie Brant claims she began writing to save her sanity. Plotting stories became her method of escape from the reality of constant ball games, chauffeuring kids, and refereeing minor disagreements between her perfect offspring. In 1992 she was elated to get a call from Silhouette offering to buy her second novel. Home with laryngitis at the time, she still managed to croak out agreement, and her career was born. A few months later she went on to sell Rancher s Choice, the first manuscript she'd written. Kylie is married to her high school sweetheart, and they make their home in Iowa. She insists that all her heroes are based on her husband of 23 years because he possesses that most heroic of all qualities - ironing skills. Those abilities come in handy, as she juggles a full time teaching job with writing and a family. Doing things the easy way has never held much appeal for this multi award-winning author. She graduated with high honours from the University of Northern Iowa. A graduation photo shows her in cap and gown holding her two sons, one aged 16 months and the other three weeks. She went on to obtain a teaching job working with learning-disabled children while completing her master's degree at night and during summers. There was a time in my life when I could imagine myself as a life-long student, she recalls. I actually toyed with the idea of pursuing a doctorate. But instead, my life took a spin and I ended up writing romances. I've never regretted it! Her family has since been completed by the birth of another son and a set of twins, a boy and a girl. Kylie's books are regularly featured on bestseller lists. With over a million copies of books in print, her novels have been distributed in 20 countries and released in seven languages. Family and friends are the main focus of Kylie's life. When she isn't writing or teaching, she enjoys reading and flower gardening. She loves traveling, preferring beach, ocean, and room service. Readers may write her at: P.O. Box 231, Charles City, IA 50616.

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      Dangerous Curves - Nina Bruhns

      Table of Contents

      DANGEROUS CURVES

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      DANGEROUS CURVES

      A SHORT-LENGTH CONTEMPORARY

      ROMANTIC SUSPENSE NOVELLA

      by

      NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY

      BEST SELLING AUTHOR

      NINA BRUHNS

      Author of over 35 award-winning novels

      More than 2 Million copies sold worldwide

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      Ex-Marine intelligence officer Darryl Bachmann is in Italy to start his dream job as a transporter for STORM Corps, the prestigious private special ops company his former commander is heading up. His first assignment? To pick up a lady scientist at the airport. Easy, right?

      Wrong.

      Dr. Linnea Gordon might look like a lab mouse in her file photo, but in person, her curves are more deadly than anything Darryl has ever encountered on the road. When someone steals her suitcase—containing the new top-secret drone system she is bringing to his boss—Darryl must jump in to save her and the project, and whisk them away to the safety of a cozy seaside hotel...all while trying to resist the temptation of those amazing—and dangerous—curves.

      •• 1 ••

      Naples, Italy

      Holy crap. Are you kidding me right now?

      It wasn’t often a genuine bad-ass Marine felt giddy. In fact never. Giddy was for chicks. Giddy was for goddamn interior decorators. Not for guys who drove tanks and blew up shit for a living. Or used to, anyway.

      But as former Marine Special Operations Intelligence Battalion sergeant Darryl Bachman took in the sight of his new ride for his new job, he felt positively lightheaded with giddiness.

      A goddamn Ferrari 468 Speciale? he practically squeaked, unable to tear his gaze from the metallic silver beauty in front of him to look at his old commander. Well, new commander. Hell, he was so excited he couldn’t even remember his own name, let alone their present working relationship.

      Fresh off the factory floor, custom made for STORM Corps with all sorts of fun bells and whistles, said Major Kiptyn Lowell III with a smile. Former major. Whatever. Beats the hell out of a Humvee, eh?

      Darryl tried to shove aside the feeling of unreality and took a step toward the Ferrari. Ya think? He took a step backward again, and finally looked at the major. You’re not shitting me, right? I mean, I really get to drive it?

      For your intake test to the Transporter Division, the major returned.

      Right. The infamous Transporter qualification test. The STORM TD was less than two years old, but already it had gained a reputation around the world for having the best drivers in the business. With Major Llowell in charge, Darryl was not  surprised.

      Once you’re in, you can pick your own vehicle, the major said.

      Darryl soaked in the sight of the Ferrari and his giddiness hit the stratosphere. Can I keep this one?

      Probably. We’ll talk about that once you pass the test. The major spread his feet and crossed his arms in that familiar stance of casual authority with which he’d commanded the MSOIB unit he and Darryl had both recently mustered out of. Major Llowell had resigned his commission last year, right after that Hainan Island spy incident in China during which he’d encountered both his new wife and his current—make that their current—employer, Strategic Technical Operations and Rescue Missions Corporation, known throughout the world as STORM Corps. STORM’s specialty was recovering hostages and defending assets in war-torn regions of the world. They were also rumored to carry out sensitive or controversial covert ops in locations and situations where official government agencies couldn’t or wouldn’t go.

      Working intelligence behind the lines, their MSOIB unit had run across most of the private military companies out there. There weren’t many of them. STORM was one of the best-known, with an excellent reputation for getting the job done right with minimum fallout.

      After Major Llowell had fallen on his sword and taken the fall for the goatfuck the brass had turned the Hainan op into, STORM Corps had made the major an offer he couldn’t refuse—to head up their new Transporter Division. Because of STORM’s backdoor role in the op, Darryl was a known quantity, and had been expecting his own job offer from them. It had arrived the day after he’d left the Marines two weeks ago. But he’d been thrilled at the invitation to qualify for the elite ranks of the TD.

      He loved cars and driving more than anything else on the planet.

      But was he really good enough? He was nervous as hell about this damn test. Twice as nervous, now that he knew a state-of-the-art Ferrari was on the line, too.

      He finally met the commander’s eyes, half incredulous, half pathetically hopeful, waiting for the other boot to drop—as it always had in his life. This was too friggin’ awesome to be true. What do I have to do? Be the getaway driver for a bank robbery, or something? He was only half kidding. STORM had pulled off some crazy shit out there.

      The major gave him an enigmatic smile. Not this time. He handed him a photo.

      It showed a woman dressed in a boxy white lab coat, wearing nondescript glasses, her nondescript hair pinned up in a nondescript up-do. She wore little or no make-up and was of indeterminate age, but appeared to be younger rather than older. 

      Meet your qual test.

      Darryl blinked, and looked back at the photo in alarm. He could almost hear the thunk of that boot falling. "Uh..." Surely, he wouldn’t be expected to—

      The major’s neutral mask didn’t crack, but he chuckled. Don’t worry, kid. The TD doesn’t deal in that kind of assignment. That’s a different division.

      Thank God. Then...what do I do with her? The boot hovered precariously overhead as myriad other possibilities flitted through his mind, none of them good.

      "Pick her up at the airport and make sure you, she, and her equipment all get to the op meeting at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Do whatever you have to do to make that happen. The head of STORM Command will be there, along with several key operators. Do not be late. The major gave him a don’t-fucking-blow-it look as he handed him a thick manila envelope. Flight,  hotel, and meeting info, along with company credit cards and some cash."

      Darryl didn’t exactly know what he’d been expecting, but this was definitely not it. Not even close.

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