Zorro and the team are tasked with attending a conference on leadership that is being presented by one of the former members of the SEAL community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They will also be training with the Brazilian police, Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, BOPE, a special operations unit, the training sanctioned by Brazil’s Ministry of Defense. In addition, there is an International Conference on Surgery, Anesthesiology and Trauma. While there, he runs smack into Dr. Everly Quinn, who is attending and presenting. The hazy memory of her kissing him has persisted since he’d gotten home to the States. The prickly doctor is just as contrary, but they have to coincide during the conference, so he offers a truce which Everly reluctantly agrees to. Except as the conference progresses, he finds that his attraction for the woman just grows due to her competence, knowledge, and expertise on the subject of trauma medicine. He feels that her grief and condemnation over her husband’s death will always be between them, stemming from her inability to forgive the collateral damage from the War on Terror. But after a harrowing attack on the hotel, Everly starts to soften, and Zorro’s hope of moving forward with her expands.
Everly is upset and dismayed when she sees Zorro and his team at the conference she’s attending. She wants to avoid him, the memory of him in the hospital in the Philippines wouldn’t let go of her, especially her lapse in judgment by kissing him when he was unconscious. But then terrorists attack the participants, and Zorro and his team go above and beyond the call of duty. Everly can’t seem to lump them all in with her dislike of special forces, and her attraction to him, at first, makes her crazy. She couldn’t seem to stop herself from judging him. To get involved with a special forces member when they were responsible for her husband’s death is unthinkable. But, against her will, she starts seeing the man beneath the uniform. She doesn’t know if she can overcome her pain and blame to finally forgive and heal her heart and allow this man to fill it with the love she’s denying them both.
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SEAL Team Alpha Series
BOOK 17: Professor
BOOK 18: Joker
BOOK 19: Gator
BOOK 20: Blitz
BOOK 21 Buck
BOOK 22: D-Day
BOOK 23: Zorro
BOOK 24: Bear