Seduced by the Season — Merline Lovelace

It's been a long time since Sophie Hawthorne has been seduced by anything -- or anyone. Winters in Dublin, Ireland, are cold and dreary, and without family, the holidays are bleak and lonely. This year's looking to be no different -- it's five days before Christmas and Sophie is still slinging drinks at the local pub and dreading going home to an empty flat, and an even emptier bed.

For FBI agent Clint Walker, things are heating up. He's hot on the trail of a prehistoric-art thief who will be the key to bringing down a notorious drug czar. And he just caught a glimpse of the sexy blond waitress at the bar. Who just happens to be an art student at Trinity College and an expert in Mesolithic structures.

It's the perfect excuse to mix business with pleasure. And Clint is determined to nail both his quarries….