Bits and Pieces

Join USA TODAY bestselling author Merline Lovelace as she revisits a classic story of lovers on a mission.

As a test pilot working in high-tech weapons development, Colonel Jake McAllister is all business, all the time. So when engineer Maura Phillips joins his team, the no-nonsense Jake is shocked to his very core by the sudden attraction he feels to the brainy beauty. But when Jake and Maura's very lives come under fire, the colonel will keep close tabs on his self-control and the deadly threats haunting them both.

Originally published by Meteor Publishing in 1993, revised edition published by Harlequin in 2005