Jae's Assignment (28 page)

About the Author

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Bernice Layton works full-time and is an avid reader of romantic suspense novels. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and the Black Writers’ Guild of Maryland, Inc. Happily married, Mrs. Layton resides with her husband and is the mother of one daughter, NaTiki, who inspires her to keep writing with this phrase in mind: “All things are possible with love and friendship, and the endless possibilities of past, future, and present encounters.”

Mrs. Layton has published four other romantic suspense novels and is delighted to have her fifth novel,
Jae’s Assignment
, published by Samhain Publishing.

Mrs. Layton plans to write many more romantic suspense novels. You can visit her at
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Her determination to shield her child from the ugliness of her past takes a hit when a man claiming to be her late husband’s son barges through her front door.

Dominic Sambarino demands half of her daughter’s inheritance. Ava wastes no time showing him she’ll come out swinging with everything she has. But no amount of fight in the world can prepare her for the instant, smoldering chemistry between the two of them.

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Jae’s Assignment

Copyright © 2016 by Bernice Layton

ISBN: 978-1-61923-078-1

Edited by Latoya Smith

Cover by Syd Gill Designs

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First
Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
electronic publication: May 2016

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