Escape, a sexy romantic thriller with a focus on the dangers of a nuclearized Middle East. When Harvard student, Layla Rose Wallace and her Saudi boyfriend are kidnapped in Dubai and taken to Iran, a deep-cover Mossad agent is activated and given a mission. He is ordered to either get Layla out of Iran, or if failing that--kill her. Cyrus Hassani is an assistant to the deputy director of Oghab2, Iran's secretive intel organization with authority over their nuclear ambitions; he is a Mossad mole, gorgeous, sexy, and dangerous. Fiery, auburn-haired, Layla Wallace is an art history doctoral candidate at Harvard, when on vacation she and her Saudi boyfriend are kidnapped in Dubai and taken to Tehran. As the daughter of a renowned nuclear physicist, she is a perfect target for blackmail. Layla's kidnapping is about to create an international incident and blow Cyrus's carefully constructed cover to smithereens. When Cyrus first lays eyes on the feisty redhead he knows he's in trouble. When they are running for their lives, he's fighting not only a powerful adversary who's vowed to destroy him for his treason, but an impossible attraction to a woman he's struggling to resist.

Author Biography

Tema Merback, writing as Belle Ami. She is a Kathryn McBride scholar of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She lives in California with her husband, two children, three dogs, and horse. She is the author of The Only One series, The One (#1), and The One & More (#2). Her third in the series titled One More Time is Not Enough, was published July 13th, 2016. Her next book, Saving Layla, will be published by Hartwood Publishing in early 2017. A quote that Belle considers her mantra is by Wilferd Peterson, "Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."