Shattered Instinct: A Novel of Romantic Suspense - Paperback

She hunts war criminals. He outruns them. The case that brings them together was designed to bury them both.

ICC investigator Lara Swift cages criminals with evidence, not instinct-not since a man she loved proved how wrong her gut could be. Then a Roma refugee dies in her arms, begging her to expose a secret facility in Romania, and for the first time in years, Lara trusts her instincts and goes rogue.

She has no backup. No jurisdiction. All she's got is Jaden Turner-pilot, charmer, convicted smuggler-the one person who can keep her case alive. But Jaden has secrets of his own buried in Romania, and every reason to make sure Lara never finds them. What starts as a wary alliance becomes something neither can afford: a slow burn between two people who know exactly what trust costs.

From Amsterdam's red-light district to the bone-lined catacombs of Rome, they follow a trail of corruption. Her witnesses keep dying. A Russian-trained assassin is closing the distance. By the time she realizes the conspiracy reaches into her past, into the institutions she serves, into him, she's trapped with a killer no court can touch. And the only weapon she has left is the instinct she swore she'd never trust again.

A sweeping novel of international intrigue with romance simmering at its core, Shattered Instinct is for readers who like their suspense smart, their stakes lethal, and their romance earned.