Flirting with Danger: Sloane Monroe Series, #5.5

By Cheryl Bradshaw

A fancy hotel. A weekend getaway. 

For Sloane Monroe, rest has finally arrived, until the lights go out, a woman screams, and Sloane's nightmare begins.

If you're a fan of James Patterson and Lisa Gardner, you'll enjoy Bradshaw's mysteries. 

A New York Times bestselling mystery series. 

"The characters are excellent." 

"This is a fast moving story full of drama and surprises which will keep you gripped right to the end."

"Danger, intrigue, and just the right amount of latent emotional/romantic feelings to appease readers."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cheryl Bradshaw
• Release date: Aug 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507035382

Cheryl Bradshaw

Born and raised in Southern California, Cheryl Bradshaw became interested in writing at a young age, but it was almost two decades before she put pen to paper. In 2009 Bradshaw wrote Black Diamond Death (Book One: Sloane Monroe series). Within six weeks it entered the top 100 in two different categories and remained in the top 100 for over a year. Since that time, Bradshaw has written three additional novels in the series, and is now hard at work on the fourth. In 2013, Bradshaw introduced a new pranormal thriller series: Addison Lockhart, the first book titled Grayson Manor Haunting. Bradshaw is the founder of IWU on Facebook, a writers group with over 1,800 members. In August 2012, Bradshaw was named one of Twitter's seven best authors to follow.

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, businesses, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any similarity to events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

—Abraham Lincoln

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 22

CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 24

CHAPTER 25

CHAPTER 26

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CHAPTER 1

Rachel Forrester gazed into the full-length mirror, almost not recognizing her recent transformation. An hour earlier she’d arrived at the pricey Hotel Devonshire dressed in a pair of boot-cut jeans, a T-shirt, and neon-colored running shoes. She wore no makeup and no jewelry, not even her princess-cut wedding ring.

Rachel checked into the fourteen-hundred-dollar-a-night penthouse suite and was escorted to her room, where her own on-call butler showed off the amenities, including a spectacular view of New York City’s Central Park. She’d grown used to these late-night rendezvous in fancy, upscale hotels. Too bad they were coming to an end.

After soaking in the oversized marble bathtub, Rachel removed the satin ribbon from the box that had been left for her at the edge of the bed and changed into the outfit she wore now—a ruby red and black corset, black thong panties, silk stockings clipped into garter straps, and the sexiest pair of black-and-gold studded Manolo Blahnik’s she’d ever seen. Rocco The Rock Romano may have been a tyrant, but she had to admit, he had exquisite taste when it came to women’s clothing.

Rachel lifted one of the shoes from the box with a finger, dangling it in front of her face. Admiring. Appreciating. Calculating. This pair in particular must have set Rocco back eight-hundred bucks at the very least. She curved her mouth into a smile, fully aware that she was worth it. Worth every copper-colored penny.

Seductive vixen wasn’t a role Rachel thought she’d ever play, but being hard up for cash opened all kinds of previously closed windows. When the woman who hired her fanned ten large in front of her face, saying no just wasn’t an option. The money was too enticing to resist. When she was all done up in Rocco’s gifts, she knew she was exactly what he sought—looks and body included. She was good at playing the role of doting mistress, even allowing a small part of her to fall for Rocco’s charms. On the outside, he was intelligent, collected. On the inside, sensitive and warm. At times it was hard for her to see him for who he really was—a cold-blooded killer.

Rachel gazed out of the bedroom window, reflected on the first time she met Rocco a few months before. She’d sat at a table across from him at La Vita e Bella, an Italian restaurant he frequented. After tailing him for three weeks, she’d learned his habits, his likes, his dislikes—anything and everything she needed to know so she could nail him to the wall when the moment was right. There was a twenty-five-thousand-dollar bonus in it for her when she did, and she wasn’t about to let anything screw it up, not even her feelings for the guy.

Rocco had taken to Rachel quickly that first night, striking up a conversation before inviting her to dine at his table. Rachel chose her words carefully, inserting a few shared interests into the conversation, things to reel him in, get him interested. Within thirty minutes, he was hooked.

Two months later, Rachel almost had what she wanted. In the living room of his house, Rocco had dropped his guard and engaged in a private conversation with his underboss and consigliere right in front of her. He’d smiled at her, confident she wasn’t smart enough to decode what he was actually saying.

He was wrong.

So wrong.

All she needed now was one last night, and it would all be over.

The clothes.

The attention.

The parties.

The sex.

Rocco.

The sound of Rachel’s phone vibrating on the nightstand brought her back to the present moment, as if jolting her from a moment of tranquil meditation. She glanced at the name on the caller ID. Rocco.

Thank you for my present, she said.

"Did you put it