title: Shadow Alpha (Alpha 3) (Volume 3)
author:  Carole Mortimer 
description: Carole Mortimer has written over 200 romance novels in contemporary, Regency and romantic suspense. She is recipient of 2015 Romantic Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014 Romantic Times Pioneer of Romance, recognized in 2012 by Queen Elizabeth II for 'outstanding service to literature', and a USA Today Bestselling Author. She is happily married to Peter, they have 6 sons, and live in the Isle of Man.
zlib_text: An Alpha series novel
  DARK ALPHA
  by
  Carole Mortimer
  USA Today Bestselling Author
  
  COPYRIGHT
  Copyright © 2015 Carole Mortimer
  Cover Design Copyright © Glass Slipper Designs
  Editor: Megan Stevens
  ISBN: 978-1-910597-02-6 mobi
  ISBN: 978-1-910597-03-03 ePub
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the
  author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
  businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  All Rights Reserved.
  
  DEDICATIONS
  For my husband Peter, as always.
  And to all of you, again, for taking the time to read and
  enjoy my books.
  
  Chapter 1
  “Do you know what the obvious answer to all your financial worries is, Nicky?”
  Nicky was only half listening to her friend Chrissie as the two of them sat in the busy London
  coffee shop together, killing time before attending a university lecture. Her attention was all on the
  man who had just entered the noisy building, rathe