C.S. Smith writes steamy romantic suspense featuring former special operators. She admits to having a thing for alpha males. The bigger and badder, the harder they fall!Her love of spine-tingling romance can be traced to her formative years in DC, surrounded by intrigue and handsome men in uniform-including the one she married.A native New Englander who has spent over half her life in North Carolina, she's an empty nester, leaving only her husband and "faux" Golden Retriever at her mercy.

A need for justice she can't ignore.
A need to protect he can't deny.
An enemy out to destroy them both.
Foreign service officer Emily Dane, the daughter of a retired Navy SEAL, is determined to live life on her own terms, not under her father's protection. When she helps two young girls escape a sex trafficking ring in Paris, she ends up in the crosshairs of a Parisian crime lord.
When Emily goes missing, it falls to former Navy SEAL Nathan Long to rescue the very woman he slept with the night of his best friend's wedding. The one who ran away the next morning without so much as a goodbye. The one he can't get out of his mind.
Emily is determined to bring down the crime lord. Alone, if that's what it takes. What she doesn't need is another overprotective Navy SEAL in her life, even if he makes her heart flutter.
Nathan's hell-bent on showing Emily what it means to be part of a team and that wanting to keep her safe doesn't mean stifling her spirit.
Is Emily willing to risk her life and a shot at love to prove she's an independent woman?
Or will they both go Missing in Action?