Private Agenda

Product Description Private Agenda by Natalie Dunbar released on Apr 11, 2006 is available now for purchase. About the Author Strong, smart, daring, and loving heroines dominate Natalie Dunbars books. Her books run the gambit from romantic suspense and action and adventure, to contemporary and paranormal romance. While away the hours engrossed in the worlds she creates in her books. You wont regret it.Married to her high school sweetheart, Natalie has two sons and has spent many years working in the Detroit area as an engineer. She is currently considering new challenges. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Private AgendaBy Natalie DunbarKimani PressCopyright 2006Natalie DunbarAll right reserved.ISBN: 0373285582In a deep funk after completing her team requalifications, Reese sat at her CIA desk trying to plan her next move. Shed suffered from gestational hypertension and preeclampsia during her sixmonth pregnancy, which caused her precious daughter Nicole to be stillborn and left her forty pounds heavier. With her crash diet and training program, shed narrowly met the agency weight requirement, but in typical fashion shed aced the physical test. Flaherty, her section chief, had been glad to get one of his best agents back.Both feet rested on the gray desk as she stared at her monitor and tapped a finger on the keyboard. One week in the office after eight months away and, except for Nicks absence, it was like shed never left. Shed set up her new office and gotten reacquainted with the team. Shed also checked open agency and source files for information on the Rwandan embassy bombing, piecing together the evidence and confirming some rumors. Rileys body was still missing, but presumed burned to ash.In a weak moment shed even analyzed agency files against the info Flaherty had given her two days ago when hed sent an extraction team to rescue Nick and the missionaries from the Colombian rebel camp where theyd been imprisoned. She found nothing new. That bothered her. There should have been an update from the extraction team.Her restless fingers closed on a pencil, moving up and down yellowpainted wood. That moment when shed held little Nicoles body in the hospital, knowing that her beautiful baby would never open her eyes, still haunted her. The pencil snapped in her fingers. Dammit, Nick should have been there. Or did it bother her more that it had been one of the few times in her life when her strength had failed her?Leaning over, she tossed the broken pencil into the trash. She expelled her pentup breath on a sigh. Shed filed papers to divorce Nick for not being the husband she thought he should be, but she didnt want anything to happen to him. Lord help her, he didnt even know about Nicole.A message popped up on her screen in large red letters: MISSION BRIEFING AT 1400 HOURS. Flaherty was back. Swinging her legs off the desk, she stood, shut off the laptop and retrieved her PDA. Then she headed for the briefing room.The mere thought of a new mission usually got her juices flowing, but this time she had too many other things on her mind. Gritting her teeth and rotating her shoulders, Reese tried to loosen up. Whatever this mission was, she didnt want it, especially now that she had a name and a face for the SOB whod provided the weapons and explosives for the Rwandan embassy bombing. If Nick was in the hands of the extraction team, going after her brothers killer topped her list. The reality was that refusing a mission was not an option and being back with the CIA meant doing the assignments they gave her.With each step of her boots up the blackandgold marble corridor, four gritty years of training kicked in. Shed already begun the mental preparation for the upcoming mission. This time she knew she could depend only on herself.Stepping into Briefing Room 2, Reese blinked against the bright lights mounted in the ceiling tiles. In a rumpled gray suit and