***This book and the next in the series were written BEFORE the recent pull-out of troops in Afghanistan, where some of the action takes place in the stories.Compelled by her past, Kyra Ray enlisted in the military at age eighteen, giving up an international modeling contract, and was selected to train as an operative for an anti-terror unit.Unable to avoid his past, Dalton LeClair became a highly-paid assassin.Destined for Danger. Sanctioned to Kill.Hot on the trail of an international weapons ring, junior covert agent Kyra Ray finds herself caught in the cross-hairs of a ruthless arms dealer in the perilous mountains of war-torn Afghanistan.Closing in, the mission takes an unexpected and near-deadly turn in the high-stakes drama of New York City, where Kyra is mysteriously spared by an assassin sent to kill.Retrained as an assassin and given strict orders to take him down, Kyra becomes trapped in a game of cat-and-mouse that will put her life on the line and her directive to the test-her sanction to kill.Kyra Quote: "Are you telling me this assassin became infatuated with me to the point he killed other agents, but felt compelled to save me because of self-indulgent lust from afar?"