The Second Betrayal- Cheyenne McCray

The Second Betrayal
Cheyenne McCray
St. Martin’s, Aug 4 2009, $7.99
ISBN: 9780312943080

NSA’s Recovery Enforcement Division operative Lexi Steele lusts after her partner Nick Donovan, but knows the mission comes before her raging libido. Someone is running an international traffic ring out of New York by enticing girls to come to the Big Apple as models only to sell them as sex slaves. Lexi goes undercover pretending to be a madam interested in buying merchandise.

Lexi also believes Nick is concealing something from her though they are lovers when not on a case. He also fears their relationship will end if she learns the truth about what he hides from her from his Special Forces day; but in a quandary because telling the truth will end their relationship even sooner. However, he agrees with her assessment first there is a notorious trafficker that needs to be stopped.

After they broke the rules of teaming with THE FIRST SIN, Lexi and Nick are back to break the rules again as operatives in RED’s Human Trafficking and Sex Crimes Division. The case comes first though she has issues with her lover. Fans will enjoy their escapades as this time the Hudson is the focus of dirty water in Cheyenne McCray’s gritty look at trafficking. IAW the author’s afterward quoting the State Department: “up to two million people are trafficked worldwide every year, with an estimated 15000 to 18000 in the U.S.”
Harriet Klausner