Take Me If You Dare

Take Me If You Dare
Candace Havens

For Mariska Stonegate, the gorgeous guy she’s now met is everything she’s looking for in a man – hot, hot and… hot! Just because every pore of his body screams danger and sex doesn’t mean she’s getting herself into trouble…But her sensual stranger is a burned CIA agent on the run and he’ll do just about anything to stay alive… including seducing Mariska one steamy night at a time!

About the Author

Award-winning author and columnist CANDACE “CANDY” HAVENS lives in Texas with her mostly understanding husband, two children and two dogs, Scoobie and Gizmo. Candy is a nationally syndicated entertainment columnist for FYI Television. She has interviewed just about everyone in Hollywood from George Clooney and Orlando Bloom to Nicole Kidman and Kate Beckinsale. You can hear Candy weekly on The Big 96.3 in the Dallas Fort Worth Area. Her popular online Writer’s Workshop has more than thirteen hundred students and provides free classes to professional and aspiring writers.

Dear Reader,

I’m so excited to be one of the newest Blaze® Babes and I hope you enjoy this, my first Blaze®.

Have you ever done something impulsive or crazy that turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to you? That’s how my heroine Mariska Stonegate finds herself involved with an intriguing and mysterious man. She decides to give in to her instincts and finds a way to spend some quality time with a hunky stranger.

My hero Jackson Walker is a CIA agent on the run. Something has happened and now everyone is after him, and he doesn’t know why. He’s a good guy who has to make some difficult choices in order to survive. When he accidentally bumps into Mariska, he can’t help but wonder what it would be like to have a life with this sexy woman. When she wants to spend a weekend making passionate love, he can’t say no to her.

Please e-mail me at candacehavensbooks@gmail.com and tell me what you think about the book, or you can find me on twitter.com/candacehavens as well as My Space, Facebook and Live Journal, all of which can be found via www.candacehavens.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Enjoy!

Candy

Take Me if you Dare

Candace Havens

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

To my editor Kathryn Lye for the encouragement, and

tough love when necessary. You are the best.

Thank you so much

Table of Contents

Cover (#uaaf64287-cc0b-5745-a675-8ffa8711ac00)

About the Author (#u91ad2e05-6d20-5a60-9f4a-663b3aee7c74)

Title Page (#u1c9a45e2-d413-51ee-a62a-dbb1502ea0ba)

Dedication (#u19261e35-962f-52c1-8fb3-0eaf96a2d049)

Prologue (#u8d6d4503-07a6-5f05-b764-8e30ff95e022)

Chapter One (#u4cd5d514-eb2d-5a0e-b433-010837fc9500)

Chapter Two (#uee932808-b1fe-512c-ac21-1ca049e64242)

Chapter Three (#u8866719e-59cf-5419-ab3b-f6df9f2912d1)

Chapter Four (#u5f241967-8d80-5cb0-98a7-37b633d4e72b)

Chapter Five (#u9c1eb087-d8d0-5bbe-963e-ab05da454e36)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue

JACKSON WAS ALIVE. At least that much he could determine from the excruciating pain in his ribs every time he tried to breathe. Testing his arms and legs. He was relieved when he could move them.

Well, there’s that.

As the fuzziness cleared from his brain, he remembered exactly when everything went to hell. The moment he walked into Vladimir’s office at Club Loi in Rayong he had known his cover was blown. The gunrunner greeted him without his smarmy smile, a sign that all was not well. Vlad hadn’t said a word, only motioned to his men.