“Please,” she said, “don’t throw away years of hard work because of one bad day.”

“You think I’m flashing back again, don’t you? To Iraq. He gaped at her and fidgeted with a bullet strung on a cord that he often grasped during their sessions. “I know this is a setback, Ace, but we can work through it.” She slid closer to him on the park bench to grab his attention. It was her job to find a way to get through to him. As his therapist, she couldn’t play into his paranoia. Olivia Dobbs took lightly, even if she didn’t believe her client’s life was in danger. But when the sniper trains his rifle on her, Rick must recall all the skills he learned as a Marine sniper to make sure the next bullet fired isn’t a kill shot that takes Olivia out. When she discovers one of her clients moments after he is murdered, she becomes both the FBI’s prime witness, and suspect.ĭespite the mutual attraction that immediately sparks between them, Rick can’t - no he won’t - let Olivia interfere with his investigation. Therapist Olivia Dobbs is well known for her success in counseling military veterans with PTSD. But they aren’t the only ones desperate to find the killer. When a homeless vet is killed with a smart bullet, it’s clear that the ammunition has been stolen, and the Knights are called in to find the thief and stop the killings. But since the ammunition was still in the development stage, he figured they had plenty of time before that happened. Rick feared these smart bullets - which have one hundred percent accuracy that can turn even a novice into a lethal sniper - would eventually end up in the hands of the wrong people. Suspense and romance combine in Susan Sleeman’s thrilling new novel about an FBI agent who must team up with a beautiful therapist to stop a killer with a deadly new weapon.Īs the ballistics and weapon’s expert for the FBI’s special task force nicknamed the White Knights, Rick Cannon has known the Department of Defense was developing self-steering bullets.

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