Across a Crowded Room

IATO, #1

Across A Crowded Room parts 1-3 While working with the secret International Anti-Terrorist Organization, IATO agent Jason DesJardin survives the deadly explosion that seriously injures his partner, Harrison James and kills his mentor, Senior Agent Avery Holmes. After discovering evidence of a mole in the organization, Jason goes deep undercover to find the man behind the kill order. Guilt, a dark secret from his past, and the need to protect Avery's daughter, prevents Jason from returning to Emily and exposing her to the dangerous elements of his job. Instead of being with her, he watches and guards her from a distance, refusing to accept that rejecting her hurts both of them. Emily is ready to prove she's stronger than Jason realizes. Accepting the man she loves is alive and avoiding her is not an option. She's determined to finish her training with her father's black ops organization, IATO, find the answers haunting her past, and once and for all, prove she can take care of herself. When she discovers ties between the old car bombing that killed her father and the terrorists she's investigating, she finagles an assignment on to Jason's team and their next IATO mission. She will get the stolen nanotech chip back from the arms dealer looking to broker the secret technology to the terrorists and investigate the contact to her father's death.