Böcker av C. S. Smith

He chose love over family.Ryder Montague was ready to abandon the weighty expectations of his aristocratic family for American Nathalie Williams. Her brutal rejection on the eve of their graduation from Oxford shattered him and his dreams for their future.Eight years later, he's a transformed man-a toughened ex-SAS soldier and leader of Dìleas Security Agency's elite executive protection team. When a new client in the States turns out to be Nathalie, Ryder reluctantly takes the assignment, determined to prove his love for her is nothing but an old memory, best forgotten. She chose family over love.Nathalie sacrificed everything, including Ryder, to fulfill her father's dream of creating a safer and more lethal combat jet after her brother's plane went down in Iraq. Now, she's about to present an AI-enhanced software design to the US military that will revolutionize America's Next Generation fighter. Only someone is determined to stop her.Will they have a second chance?Nathalie is shocked to discover her new bodyguard is none other than the shy, sweet boy she loved in college-now a sexy, dangerous man. Old emotions resurface even as she vows to keep Ryder from finding out the real reason she walked away from him.When Nathalie's stalker turns his sights on Ryder, her secret isn't the only thing standing between them. If they are to have a second chance at happiness, they must put aside the past and work together to stay alive. Or will it be a Missed Opportunity?

A need for justice she can't ignore.A need to protect he can't deny.An enemy out to destroy them both.Foreign service officer Emily Dane, the daughter of a retired Navy SEAL, is determined to live life on her own terms, not under her father's protection. When she helps two young girls escape a sex trafficking ring in Paris, she ends up in the crosshairs of a Parisian crime lord.When Emily goes missing, it falls to former Navy SEAL Nathan Long to rescue the very woman he slept with the night of his best friend's wedding. The one who ran away the next morning without so much as a goodbye. The one he can't get out of his mind.Emily is determined to bring down the crime lord. Alone, if that's what it takes. What she doesn't need is another overprotective Navy SEAL in her life, even if he makes her heart flutter.Nathan's hell-bent on showing Emily what it means to be part of a team and that wanting to keep her safe doesn't mean stifling her spirit.Is Emily willing to risk her life and a shot at love to prove she's an independent woman?Or will they both go Missing in Action?

He's hostage to his past. Betrayal and death haunt former British Special Air Service captain Lachlan Mackay after a disastrous mission in the mountains of Afghanistan ends his military career. Now a civilian, his job overseeing security teams in Kabul brings the opportunity to topple a powerful warlord, avenge the dead, and free himself from the crushing guilt of trusting the wrong woman. However, his plans for revenge get derailed when someone from his past targets his beautiful new American colleague.She has a secret that could destroy him. Sophia Russo wants to make a difference in the lives of the Afghan people. As the new director of Legislative Affairs at Landry Associates International, her job is to lobby Congress to support her company's development projects in the war-torn country. But when her best friend's father, a retired four-star admiral, tells her someone may be trafficking weapons to a warlord, she agrees to spy on the prime suspect, LAI's head of Global Security. Lachlan Mackay is dangerously sexy and full of secrets, but after getting to know the Hot Scot, her heart refuses to believe he's a criminal.The past won't stay dead. When Sophia is caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse between Lachlan and an unknown enemy, she teams up with him to help prove his innocence. The tables are turned when their hunt for the truth makes them the hunted.To save Lachlan, Sophia may have to betray him, and Lachlan is forced to do the one thing he swore he'd never do again.Trust a woman with his life.

The latest volume in this popular series features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every theatre review and awards article published in the New York Times between January 1997 and December 1998.