Night Shadow: A Novel [Paperback]

USCherry Adair has garnered numerous awards for her innovative action-adventure novels, which includeNight Secrets, Night Fall, White Heat, Hot Ice, On Thin Ice, Out of Sight, In Too Deep, Hide andSeek,andKiss and Tell, as well as her thrilling Edge trilogy:Edge of Danger, Edge of Fear, andEdge of Darkness. A favorite of reviewers and fans alike, she lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is as work writing the next T-FLAC mission.“Pulse-pounding . . . contains all the danger, treachery and romance a reader could wish for . . . [Cherry] Adair elevates her high-octane tales into the must-read category!”—Romantic Times

“Thriller action and hot sex . . . smoothly blends sensuality and espionage.”—Publishers Weekly
Chapter One


MOSCOW
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1800 HOURS 

Blinking snowflakes off her lashes, T-FLAC operative Alexis Stone shot a quick glance down at the toes of her brand-new, size-eight combat boots as she teetered on the edge of the snow- encrusted roof. The excruciating headache that had plagued her for the last several minutes intensified. A headache was going to be the least of her damned problems if she didn’t move. 

Jump. Get it over with. Quick and painless. 

What the . . . ? 

Jumpacross,she told herself. Not down.Across. Betweenthe buildings. A relatively easy jump, yet she hesitated. Terminal velocity wouldn’t be in effect in such a short drop. She’d only fall about a hundred and fifty feet, not the four hundred necessary to pick up the hundred and thirty- five miles an hour to achieve terminal speed. 

What was shethinking? Mouth dry, heart pounding, Lexi shook her head to clear it. 

Mathematically, a falling object—her