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The Negotiator

(2025)
(The third book in the Shadow Trades series)
A novel by

 
 
She speaks six languages and negotiates with criminals.

He was sent to investigate her.

Zara Volkov is untouchable. As Dubai's most elite hostage negotiator, she's brilliant, dangerous, and hiding a devastating truth—the organization she works for traffics the very people she claims to save.

Idris Al-Rashid sees through her carefully constructed lies. The Emirati security consultant is investigating her employer's criminal network. One mistake, and they're both dead.

When Zara discovers children in a shipping container, everything she's ignored for six years becomes impossible to deny. She faces an unbearable choice: stay silent and survive, or expose the truth and lose everything she's built.

He offers immunity. She offers access. Together, they're explosive.

But trust is a luxury neither can afford. She's trained to manipulate. He's trained to detect deception. And falling for each other might be the most dangerous negotiation of their lives.

She'll negotiate her own hostage situation while held at gunpoint.

He'll choose between duty and the woman who's rewriting every rule he knows.

As they race to dismantle a trafficking empire, passion ignites in the space between mission and desire. In a city built on secrets, where betrayal means death and redemption seems impossible, two people from opposite worlds will discover that the hardest negotiation isn't with criminals—it's with their own wounded hearts.

Can a woman haunted by her past trust a man investigating her crimes? Can love survive when truth is the most dangerous weapon?

Some negotiations require everything. This one demands more.


Genre: Romantic Suspense

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