The Rule-Breaker

The Rule-Breaker
Rhonda Nelson

Ranger Eli Weston always does the right thing – even when it means defying orders. Now he’s back in town to help with a memorial in honour of his fallen military buddy.This time, it’s not just about what’s right. It’s about ensuring that some secrets never come to light. A secret that only he and his friend’s ex-girlfriend knows…Clothing designer Shelby Monroe has always felt an illicit something for Eli. But when the two find themselves working together to ensure the media never discovers the truth about the town’s fallen hero, temptation unfurls… hot, wicked, and irresistible.And how far can they bend the rules before they break?

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The Rule-Breaker

Rhonda Nelson

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

A Waldenbooks bestselling author, two-time RITA

Award nominee, RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice nominee and National Readers’ Choice Award winner, RHONDA NELSON writes hot romantic comedy for the Mills & Boon

Blaze

line. With more than thirty-five published books to her credit, she’s thrilled with her career and enjoys dreaming up her characters and manipulating the worlds they live in. She and her family make their chaotic but happy home in a small town in northern Alabama. She loves to hear from her readers, so be sure to check her out at www.readrhondanelson. com, follow her on Twitter @RhondaRNelson and like her on Facebook.

For Ollie, my sweet, neurotic little fur baby, who sits at my feet from the first word on the page until the last. That, dear readers, is dedication.

Contents

Prologue (#ub50c20f5-f21a-5995-ba10-0a64f9173d24)

Chapter 1 (#u1e5e7316-3f24-5e8e-b15d-a56367cd16e1)

Chapter 2 (#u434c6804-ddb2-5276-9f22-0caf78c1f20c)

Chapter 3 (#ue3533142-5291-540f-8258-0663c40c2157)

Chapter 4 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 5 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue

Mosul

ELI WESTON NOTED THE Bible, the rosary and the bottle of Jack Daniel’s on his friend’s bedside table with a burgeoning sense of disquiet. Not that all three items didn’t make regular appearances on Micah Holland’s table—they did—but usually it was only one or two, not all three together.

That knowledge, combined with the increasingly blank expression on his friend’s face, made the hairs on the back of his neck rise.

Eli emptied his pockets and dropped heavily onto his bunk. “Another day in paradise,” he muttered, shooting Micah a smile. “You been back long?”

Micah shook his head. “Nah.”

A beat slid to three. “You look tired.”

He knew his friend hadn’t been getting much sleep, especially over the past two weeks. It was understandable, given what had happened. War was hell, and this war, in particular, had been fought in ways that boggled the mind. They’d been trained to fight other soldiers, to honor the rules of war, but this enemy didn’t play by those rules and thought nothing of strapping explosive devices onto pregnant women and then sending them into a hospital.

That’s what Micah had witnessed two weeks ago—what he’d tried to prevent—and he hadn’t been the same since. Not that Eli blamed him, but...

He hesitated, not wanting to cross a line, but not wanting to see Micah deteriorate any further. They’d met in basic training, had been friends since Jump School. There were a lot of blood and bullets under the bridge. And if the situation were reversed, he knew Micah would try to counsel him, as well.