Look what people are saying about Brenda Jackson!

      “Brenda Jackson writes romance that sizzles and characters you fall in love with.”

      —Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author

      “Jackson’s trademark ability to weave multiple characters and side stories together makes shocking truths all the more exciting.”

       —Publishers Weekly

      “Ms Jackson has proven once again why she is truly one of the Divas of romance.”

       —Romance In Color

      “Jackson’s novels are an armchair matchmaker’s dream.”

       —Romance Reader

      “The Midnight Hour is a roller-coaster read of passion, intrigue and deceit.”

      —Sharon Sala, New York Times bestselling author

      “With her inimitable style, Ms Jackson has created another rip-roaring, seductively sensual love story that is sure to take the romance-reading community by storm. As always, her standard of excellence is evident in every scintillating page of Fire and Desire.”

       —RT Book Reviews

      Dear Reader,

      I’ve been anxiously waiting to be able to write Duan Jeffries’s story—and I’m thrilled to introduce him in my very first Blaze^® novel. My readers first met the Jeffries clan when Reggie Westmoreland fell in love with Olivia Jeffries in my Desire™ book titled Tall, Dark…Westmoreland! Since then, I couldn’t get Olivia’s two older brothers, Duan and Terrence, out of my mind. Terrence made his debut in my Kimani novel Temperatures Rising, and now, finally, it’s Duan’s turn.

      I love writing about men who are smooth, suave and seductive. And of course they have to be gorgeous as well. With Duan I threw in an additional element—he’s a great multi-tasker. He can get his girl with one hand and take down the bad guys with the other. I saw him as a perfect fit for Kim Cannon, a free-spirited soon-to-be doctor, who thought she knew exactly what she wanted until Duan came along.

      I hope you enjoy reading Duan and Kim’s story. Be sure to check out the Blaze^® list for new books about the hot guys who work with Duan in the Peachtree Private Investigative Firm.

      I love hearing from my readers. You can contact or e-mail me at [email protected].

      All the best,

       Brenda Jackson

      About the Author

      BRENDA JACKSON is a die “heart” romantic who married her childhood sweetheart and still proudly wears the “going steady” ring he gave her when she was fifteen. Because she’s always believed in the power of love, Brenda’s stories always have happy endings. In her real-life love story, Brenda and her husband of thirty-eight years live in Jacksonville, Florida, and have two sons.

      A New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy romance titles, Brenda is a retiree from a major insurance company and divides her time between family, writing and travelling. Be sure to visit her website at www.brendajackson.net.

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      To my husband, the love of my life

      and my best friend, Gerald Jackson, Sr.

      To everyone who enjoys reading

      a Brenda Jackson novel, this one is for you!

      Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,

      and the man that getteth understanding.

       —Proverbs 3:13

       1

       My brother has hit gold.

      That thought ran through Duan Jeffries’s mind while he stood on the sidelines and watched Terrence “Holy Terror” Jeffries escort his bride, Sherri Griffin Jeffries, around the huge ballroom as they thanked the numerous guests for attending their wedding.

      From the moment Duan had met Sherri, he’d known she was the one woman who could make his younger brother happy. Just being in their presence was to feel the love radiating between them. And even though he was a downright cynical bastard when it came to the notion of true love, the two of them had made him somewhat of a believer.

      The same held true for his sister, Olivia, and the man she’d married last year, Senator Reggie Westmoreland. That was definitely another love match. So okay, two cases weren’t bad. He shifted his glance across the room to his father and the woman by his side and chuckled inwardly. All right, he would make that three cases. His father had finally married his devoted administrative assistant a few months back. Duan didn’t know any man who deserved the love of a good woman more than Orin Jeffries, especially after all the hell the mother of his three offspring put him through.

      Not wanting to think about the woman who’d given birth to him, the same one who’d deserted her husband and three children when Duan was twelve, Terrence ten and Libby three, he glanced at his watch, feeling tired and edgy. He had arrived in Chicago yesterday and come straight from the airport to the church, just in time to make the rehearsal dinner.

      A private investigator, for the past three months he’d been working practically around the clock trying to gather enough evidence to hand over to an attorney friend who was convinced a man he was representing had been wrongfully accused of murder. It had been a hard case to crack and even harder to deliver the news that it was the man’s wife who’d set him up. With the evidence needed to clear the man of all charges, Duan had taken off from Atlanta on a direct flight to Chicago.

      He glanced at his watch. He had another hour or so before the wedded couple headed for O’Hare and a two-week honeymoon in Paris. After they departed he would go up to his hotel room, get out of his tux and change into something more comfortable and…

       Do what?

      He didn’t have any immediate plans. Word had gotten around that some of Reggie’s brothers and cousins were hosting a card game later tonight in one of their rooms. He wasn’t surprised. He had known most of the Westmorelands from his high-school years in Atlanta and had rekindled friendships with them since Reggie had married Libby. The one thing he knew about them was that they liked to gamble, and their game of choice was poker.

      Duan decided to pass after remembering what happened the last time he’d played with them. When the game ended he’d been three hundred dollars poorer.

       If not poker, then what else was there to do?