Calculated Risk

Calculated Risk
Stephanie Doyle

At the ripe old age of twenty, girl genius Sabrina Masters was booted from the CIA for "willful insubordination." Now, ten years later, they want her back for a mission only she has the brains to complete–breaking a twisted code to flush out a terrorist. Too bad the mission comes with her former trainer and ex-lover–Quinlan–attached.With national security at risk, Sabrina doesn't have time for rules or distractions. Especially from Quinlan. A decade out of the spy game means the odds are against her–but they don't call her a genius for nothing….

“Do you think it’s impossible that a second chance might be exactly what I want?” Sabrina asked.

“You’ve been out of the game a long time, Bri. What makes you think you can handle Kahsan—a terrorist for hire with more resources than you?” her former trainer, Quinlan, replied.

“Yeah, well, you’re not exactly operating at top speed, either, chief. All these years, and you still haven’t caught him.”

“Touché. Okay. For now I’ll buy it. But you’re stuck with me. No negotiating on this one. If Kahsan bites—”

“If? I would say it was more a question of when.”

Outside the door, a snap echoed. The two froze then stared hard at each other, no communication necessary for what they both understood.

They had company.

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Calculated Risk

Stephanie Doyle

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

STEPHANIE DOYLE

is a dedicated romance reader who began writing her own romantic stories—some funny, some adventurous, but all delivering the quintessential happy ending—at age fifteen. At eighteen she submitted her first story to Harlequin and by twenty-six she was published. Now in her thirties, she struggles between the demands of her day job—writing—and trying to find a little romance of her own. She lives in South Jersey with her two cats, Alexandria Hamilton and Theodora Roosevelt. She wants to get a dog, but the cats have outvoted her.

For my brother, Bob

My version of what happens

to those really brainy kids from MIT…

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22