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“Enough, Will,” Molly said. “Nick knows his history as well as you do. He gets it.”

  Will nodded. “Let’s change subjects then. Nick, are these people going to come after Linda again?”

  Nick hesitated.

  Molly picked up her husband’s hand and gripped it. “Oh…” she whispered.

  Nick grimaced. “There is one way to ensure they don’t try again.” He glanced at Will. “You might not like it, though.”

  “Announce the deal?” Will said.

  “Once the announcement has been made public and contracts are signed, they can’t stop it by coming after Molly.”

  “I thought your Cabinet had to decide?”

  Nick shrugged. “I have a certain amount of influence.”

  “There’s the stoic again,” Molly said.

  “Would you have picked Astra, if this hadn’t happened?” Will asked.

  “I’d already decided, yesterday. You know that. You can read people, too. You guessed I leaned that way.”

  “Yes.” Will grinned. “You won’t regret it, Nick. Vistaria won’t regret it.” He held out his hand.

  Nick shook it. “Until the deal is locked in and a public announcement made, you and Molly should fade away somewhere. Let your Vice Presidents take over.”

  “I’ll think about it,” Will said and Nick, who could read people, too, knew he had no intention of stepping back and letting someone else control the deal.

  Will glanced over Nick’s shoulder and nodded. “A few last details to take care of,” he muttered. “Excuse me.”

  When he had gone, Molly put her hand against the teapot to test the temperature, then poured herself another cup. “Is there anyone in your life, Nick?”

  “There’s been a few.”

  “Anyone special? You know.”

  “Since you?” Nick shook his head.

  “Oh, Nick, that’s…”

  “It’s the reality of a life spent running a country,” Nick replied.

  “You’re so rigid now,” Molly breathed. “I did that, didn’t I?”

  “Not just you,” Nick told her.

  She considered him. “Do you still keep that Saint Christopher medallion in your pocket?”

  Nick pulled it out and let it dangle from the chain so she could see it. He put it back.

  “Then the romantic in you isn’t completely dead. One day, that side of you will rear up and rebel, too. You will be in trouble, on that day.”

  “I hope not,” Nick said fervently. “I can only face one revolution at a time.”

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  About the Author

  Tracy Cooper-Posey is a #1 Best Selling Author. She writes romantic suspense, historical, paranormal and science fiction romance. She has published over 90 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.

  She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, and a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.

  She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.

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  Rose of Ebony

  Soul of Sin

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  Marriage of Lies

  Romantic Thrillers Series

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  Forbidden*

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  Blood Knot Series

  (Urban Fantasy Paranormal Series)

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  Southampton Swindle

  Broken Promise

  Vale

  Amor Meus

  Blood Stone

  Blood Unleashed

  Blood Drive

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  Short Paranormals

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  Eva’s Last Dance

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  (Historical Romantic Suspense)

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  Heart of Vengeance

  The Endurance

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  An Inconvenient Lover

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  Reading Order 2016

  Copyright Information

  This is an original publication of Tracy Cooper-Posey

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for third-party websites or their content.

  Copyright © 2017 by Tracy Cooper-Posey

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  Cover design and editing by Mr. Intensity Mark Posey

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  FIRST EDITION: October 2017

  Cooper-Posey, Tracy

  Arctic Ambush/Tracy Cooper-Posey—1st Ed.

  Romance—Fiction

  Suspense – Fiction