Behind the public façade of Blackthorne, Inc., a high-end private investigation company, lies a band of elite covert operatives, and they’re back doing what they do best.

Fos­ter (Fozzie) May­hew, Blackthorne’s Intel Spe­cial­ist, is cocky and arro­gant, befit­ting his Aussie her­itage. Put him in a heli­copter with his sur­veil­lance instru­ments and he can spot the fleas on a squirrel’s balls from five hun­dred feet. He’s hap­pi­est when he’s res­cu­ing hostages, get­ting them to safety while Uncle Sam is still nego­ti­at­ing. But Fozzie’s boss pulls him from the work he loves and sends him to locate Vic­to­ria Hamil­ton, estranged daugh­ter of a rich client.

Torie Stoker, born Vic­to­ria Hamil­ton, is hid­ing from her father who needs her at home and mar­ried. There’s no love lost between Torie and her fam­ily. They shipped her off to a Swiss board­ing school when she was thir­teen, and at twenty-nine, she’s never looked back. When her best friend, Kathy, dies, Torie set­tles in Ore­gon, deter­mined to give mean­ing to Kathy’s death by con­tin­u­ing the botanist’s quest for rare plants with poten­tial med­ical appli­ca­tions. When a man shows up with a gun, Torie real­izes how badly her father must want her back.

Fozzie wants noth­ing more than to locate his tar­get, report to his boss, and get back to his real job. When he finds Torie being dragged away at gun­point, his pro­tec­tive instincts kick in. Soon, they’re rac­ing to dis­cover why her father sent armed men after her. Or could it have some­thing to do with Kathy’s phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal research to cure orphan dis­eases? The answers threaten to change Torie’s life forever.

Rooted in Dan­ger, the third in the Black­thorne, Inc. series, starts on a trop­i­cal island, and things heat up from there. Rooted in Dan­ger will keep read­ers turn­ing pages as the stakes—and romance–escalate.