Power Play

Trapped in a dangerous game, can she counter the enemy's deadly power play?When Vivian Steele, an attorney at the State Department, witnesses two ambassadors collapse as if poisoned at a diplomatic dinner in Washington, DC, she is recruited to be a member of a joint FBI task force assigned to investigate. But she soon finds her by-the-book ways clashing with a special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service, Jacob Cruz. A former Navy SEAL and in charge of the event's security, Jacob takes the attack personally and is driven to act quickly, unhampered by rules and regulations. As Viv starts to work her diplomatic sources, her past as a State Department lawyer comes back to haunt her, and secrets held tightly by the government thrust her into a web of danger. Afraid, she turns to the one man bent on protecting others. But can she accept Jacob's reckless ways as exactly what she needs to stay alive and to discover the truth behind the attacks?"Power Play is a riveting look into political intrigue, lies, and half truths with a bit of revenge thrown in. Readers will be pulled into the storyline as we watch various well-written characters come together to solve the two diplomatic deaths. . . . Power Play is filled with a lot of intrigue, the workings of "diplomacy," unexpected dangers, touches of faith, a bit of sweet romance and enough twists and turns that will have you unable to put it down."--Fresh Fiction