Alpha Bravo Seal

Alpha Bravo Seal
Carol Ericson

When members of her film crew start being killed off, documentarian Nicole Hastings is relieved to find the man following her is Slade Gallagher— a Navy SEAL sniper who once saved Nicole from Somali kidnappers. Now he's shadowing her to trap the terrorists behind the killings and find out just what they want.Nicole couldn't be more different from the women Slade usually fell for. But he quickly learns that there's a lot more to this socialite than he first thought. And as Slade’s admiration for her courage and resilience grows, so does his yearning. Protecting Nicole is an assignment, but can he let her go when it's all over?

Navy SEAL Protector

When members of her film crew start being killed off, documentarian Nicole Hastings is relieved to find the man following her is Slade Gallagher—a navy SEAL sniper who once saved Nicole from Somali kidnappers. Now he’s shadowing her to trap the terrorists behind the killings and find out just what they want.

Nicole couldn’t be more different from the women Slade usually falls for. But he quickly learns that there’s a lot more to this socialite than he first thought. And as Slade’s admiration for her courage and resilience grows, so does his yearning. Protecting Nicole is an assignment, but can he let her go when it’s all over?

Red, White and Built

“You do not have to carry me upstairs.”

Looking into Nicole’s green eyes, Slade narrowed his gaze. “Because you don’t want this?”

“Oh, I want whatever this is, but you don’t have to lug me up the staircase to get it.”

He chuckled. Yep, like no other high-maintenance society girl he’d ever met.

“No lugging required. You’re as light as a feather.”

“That may be, but I just survived a sniper’s bullet and an attack on the train. I’m not going to risk tumbling down the stairs, even if I do end up on top of a hot navy SEAL.”

“You don’t have to take a fall down the stairs to wind up on top of this navy SEAL.”

Alpha Bravo SEAL

Carol Ericson

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

CAROL ERICSON is a bestselling, award-winning author of more than forty books. She has an eerie fascination for true-crime stories, a love of film noir and a weakness for reality TV, all of which fuel her imagination to create her own tales of murder, mayhem and mystery. To find out more about Carol and her current projects, please visit her website at www.carolericson.com (http://www.carolericson.com/), “where romance flirts with danger.”

To Joanne, my trusty treasurer

Contents

Cover (#u5f6ae93c-6118-588e-bef8-a1b54681db40)

Back Cover Text (#u69aa7a2b-a987-59e3-970b-68e8497a50e7)

Introduction (#ud68dc6ba-7ea5-542b-be44-ae7350f0ac13)

Title Page (#u5be751af-bff0-50c6-ad5c-f24b906e361c)

About the Author (#uc1dd6a2a-10da-5d19-bdf0-5b52b564a929)

Dedication (#u825b9f04-be25-5fd8-89c5-087678aaaa87)

Prologue (#u29ae6f1d-1897-50b3-aed5-108819b12139)

Chapter One (#uba37d5e3-928b-5b90-9ea6-cacc104f1a6c)

Chapter Two (#u93a0e209-c1f8-5b2f-96a4-c0bb7cda8e6d)

Chapter Three (#u23e80159-da32-59fb-8c31-2ece114f0fd1)

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Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

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Prologue (#u1a21a816-af7f-52e8-a208-eaf58e897ced)

Slade Gallagher sucked in a salty breath of air and got ready for the kill.

Oblivious to the sniper rifles pointed at their heads from the yacht bobbing on the water just over three hundred feet away from them, four Somali pirates held their hostages at gunpoint as they communicated their demands to the two men who’d boarded their rickety craft. The two were US Navy seamen, but the pirates didn’t know that—didn’t need to.

The relatively calm seas made tracking his target easy—and safe for the hostage.

Slade zeroed in on his target, his dark skin glistening in the sun, one skinny arm wrapped around the hostage’s throat, gun nestled beneath her ear. Slade’s focus shifted to the hostage, a young woman with light brown hair blowing across her face and a tall, thin body, taut and ready.