Natasha
by
Dahlia Donovan
Blurb:
Undercover Interpol agent Natasha Itsov is the ice queen of the European shifter world. Her reputation for loving and leaving without a second thought is well known. Until she met Darren Martel, another fox shifter. She broke both of their hearts when she ran from the bond forming between them.
It’s been years since they’ve crossed paths with each other.
The threat of the Auctioneer looming over Ivy brings the two shifters together for one last mission. Old wounds are reopened, while they struggle to ignore the bond formed all those years ago. Neither wants to risk another catastrophic broken heart, yet neither wants to walk away from the chance of happily ever after.
Undercover Interpol agent Natasha Itsov is the ice queen of the European shifter world. Her reputation for loving and leaving without a second thought is well known. Until she met Darren Martel, another fox shifter. She broke both of their hearts when she ran from the bond forming between them.
It’s been years since they’ve crossed paths with each other.
The threat of the Auctioneer looming over Ivy brings the two shifters together for one last mission. Old wounds are reopened, while they struggle to ignore the bond formed all those years ago. Neither wants to risk another catastrophic broken heart, yet neither wants to walk away from the chance of happily ever after.
Is it ever
too late for love?
Natasha is the second book of the
Blackbird series by Dahlia Donovan. Book one, Ivy, is currently for sale on
Amazon, Nook & Smashwords.
Short Excerpt
“Get in here, girl.” Marin Petrov pounded on
his desk. Natasha heard it echo all the way in her own office. Jolting from the
forms she had been filling out for his next business trip, Natasha slid her
feet into her black stilettos and quickly made her way from her office into
his. The absurdity of one of the worst human traffickers in Europe having an
office fit for a lawyer never ceased to strike her as disturbingly or perhaps
disgustingly normal. She kept her expression blank and bored when she stepped
in front of him.
His gaze drifted, as it always did, from her
pointed heels along her stockings to her leather skirt and white buttoned
blouse. Natasha raised an eyebrow at him. She never let him intimidate her. It
was why he’d kept her alive when most of his secretaries met untimely accidents
when their noses strayed too far into his business.
“We’re moving to Kiev.” Petrov tossed a stack
of papers in her direction. She crouched down to retrieve them, careful not to
give him the view he wanted. “Get it organised. Now.”
Natasha nodded politely and exited the office
as quickly as she had entered it. Her disgust for the man was difficult to mask
at times. Of all the undercover assignments Natasha Itsov had taken for
Interpol, she thought working with the Auctioneer might possibly be the worst.
She glanced briefly down at the documents in her hands and froze when a familiar
name caught her attention.
Blackbird Security Firm.
The last time Natasha had dealt with Blackbird
there had been complications. Major complications. She wondered briefly about
the broken-hearted man she had left behind. Poor Darren. A smile briefly
flashed across her face. It lit up her icy blue eyes. Her full lips slowly dropped
down into a frown though as she considered the implications of Petrov’s
interest in the security firm.
She had met Darren Martel when they worked on a
joint-task force many years ago on a human trafficking case for the
International Criminal Court. Their affair had been brief but fiery. She could
still picture every inch of his freckled skin in her mind and had frequent
dreams about tying him to her bed.
Oh, sweet Darren.
Why would Petrov be interested in Blackbird? It
was a question still plaguing Natasha several days later while setting up the
office in Kiev. She heard rumours of a new girl Petrov had gone to Moldova to
grab. Her Interpol handler told her they’d almost captured him there. They
grabbed another slimy bastard instead, Valentin Krupin. Steven Samuels and
Gareth Richardson from Blackbird had contacted them with the info but the wolves
were gone with the girl before they arrived.
Her fingers itched to pick up her telephone,
but it was too risky for direct contact. Petrov would kill her if he found out,
and Interpol wouldn’t be pleased with her either if she ruined years of undercover
work. Natasha finally decided to create a dummy e-mail account. She used old
codes Darren would remember to let him know where she was, what she was doing
and warn him about the Auctioneer.
Her krasnij lis.
Her red fox.
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About
Dahlia:
Dahlia Donovan started out working in the
insurance world. After ten years, she morphed her love of investigating
accidents and studying people into writing about them. She's a bit of a hermit
and despises being in front of a camera. Her life wouldn't be complete without
her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.Her first novel
Ivy started out as a crazy dream which she turned into an adventurous and suspenseful
paranormal romance. Her second novel Natasha is schedule for release at the end
of August. It will be followed by an Ivy short story titled Masquerade sometime
in the autumn. A third novel in the Blackbird series, Alicia, will come out in
2015. Readers can find Under Fire, a free short story available to all her newsletter
subscribers. See her website for more details.
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