Crossing The Line

Intimate Moments #1179

by Candace Irvin

Silhouette (Intimate Moments)

October 1, 2002

ISBN-13: 0373272499

Available in: Paperback

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Crossing The Line
by Candace Irvin

U.S. Army pilot Eve Paris' entire life changed when her chopper crashed in the Central American jungle, leaving her battered and wracked with guilt at the loss of her copilot and best friend. Her injuries forced her to rely on the survival skills of her passenger, Special Forces Captain Rick Bishop, a man she had no business being attracted to-- especially once Eve learned Rick helped put her career on the line. In an attempt to learn what really happened, Eve and Rick must return to the crash site. But being back in enemy territory soon proves safer than revisiting the scene of their first heated kiss...

"Former U.S. Navy officer Candace Irvin fires a broadside of searing romance and pulse-pounding drama in every page of CROSSING THE LINE!" --USA Today best-selling author Merline Lovelace



Candace Irvin's Bio

As a child, Candace believed imagination was everything—and growing up as the daughter of a librarian and a sailor in locales as diverse as Germany and the Philippines, she had more than enough fodder to feed that imagination. As a teenager, she was also certain everyone had a couple extra people running around inside their heads. It was only when her father warned her about people who heard voices—and where they eventually ended up—that she realized this wasn't the case. Candace never had the heart to confess to her father that not only did those people talk to her, they led full-scale lives. Unfortunately, with the publication of her first book, FOR HIS EYES ONLY, dear ol' dad found out anyway.

As an adult, Candace learned to blend action with her imagination. After a brief stint in the US Army (long enough to survive basic training), Candace accepted a branch transfer and enrolled in the US Navy's Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC). Following her commissioning as an Ensign in the Navy and graduation from Surface Warfare Officer's school, she finally followed her father to sea. Tasked with securing the USS Samuel Gompers' damage control, she spent her days fighting fires, plugging leaks, and cleaning up toxic gases aboard the naval warship. In fact it was during one particular watch as the Gompers' Officer of the Deck, that Candace noticed a nuclear transport container and began to imagine all sorts of intriguing scenarios. It wasn't until five years later, after she'd learned to channel her excess energy and love of romance into writing that she turned that fateful night's fictitious fruit into a book. Though the Navy might not appreciate the turns her mind took along the way, she hopes you'll enjoy the results.

Although her military days are now firmly behind her, Candace continues to draw on those experiences and her overactive imagination to pen tales of danger and intrigue on the high seas and off. The rest of her time is spent happily married to her own dashing hero, a former Army Combat Engineer with dimples to-die-for. The two now reside in the South, happily raising three future heroes and one adorable heroine, who won't be allowed to date until she's forty—at least.