EVERY LAST BREATH

A covert operations agent must confront her demons as she
partners with a man from her past to intercept a biological weapon in this
debut romance.

Maddox Kinkade hasn’t had it easy in nearly a decade. She lost
her fiance and betrayed his family in an effort to gain her CIA–agent father’s
love. Instead, the process nearly killed her with grief, and she steeled herself to
become an operative for the Gray Box, a government-sanctioned agency that
specializes in secret world-saving missions. Her latest assignment is stopping
the sale of a new strain of smallpox, and the first step is tracking down a man
named Cole Matthews. But not only is Cole resistant to working with any sort of
government agency, he also turns out to be the man Maddox loved and
inadvertently double-crossed nine years ago. To complicate matters even more
than a fiance coming back from the dead and a world on the brink of biological
warfare is a string of assassinations occurring around the globe. Cole and
Maddox have to contend with the dangers of acquiring a bioweapon while
addressing the baggage that tore them apart as younger adults. Rushdan is a
fresh, exciting voice with a talent for action-packed pacing and complicated
entanglements. With a dizzying amount of jargon and acronyms for the reader to
keep straight, the book sometimes gets bogged down by bureaucracy, though the
scenes between Cole and Maddox are thick with tension. It’s a promising start
to both a new romantic suspense series and a new writer in the genre, as all
the separate subplots reach their aha moments and come together in an
edge-of-your seat conclusion.

A romantic thriller that handily juggles emotional intensity and
a heart-pounding, James Bond–ian adventure.