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Svea's Sins: A Pepper McCallan Novel (The Pepper McCallan Series Book 2) Alexi Venice

Publisher Marketing: Winter 2018 Pepper McCallan doesn't expect to be recruited so quickly by Brent Cahill as a consultant to the U. S. Counterterrorism Agency while she and her husband, Bill, are island-hopping in the Caribbean. But during an Agency a stakeout in London, Brent discovers he needs Pepper's help to thwart a terrorist plot on America that incorporates nerve gas, drones and suspicious liaisons between world leaders. In his personal life, Brent is trying to build a relationship with the love of his life, Jackie Starr, who is a high-powered CrossFit trainer, by offering her a vacation in the French West Indies. Brent and Pepper further their counterterrorism success when they unnerve the stunning Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Svea Lovgren, by confronting her at a formal ball in Stockholm. They decipher Svea's twisted terror motives by analyzing her sexual rendezvous with Russian President Vadik Volkov. As Pepper is drawn further into the increasingly dangerous international intrigue, her husband, Bill McCallan, resumes his career as an orthopedic surgeon at Southview Hospital in Minneapolis. While working, he unexpectedly finds himself at the center of a large scale disaster at Southview Hospital that has Svea Lovgren's handprints on it. In this riveting second novel, Pepper continues to enhance her reputation in the Counterterrorism Agency with the President of the United States in a not-so-distant future that proves to be as sinister as it is sentimental. The terror plots keep coming in the next Pepper McCallan novel entitled "Margaret River Winery," which features hot romance and spectacular vineyard scenes.