Dustee Carr is running for her life from an attacker as she exits the bus near her home. She narrowly escapes down an alley and hides out until she can contact her WITSEC Deputy Taylor Mills. Dustee and her sister were relocated to Portland, Oregon in a deal to keep herself out of prison for hacking. She gave up information on Phantom, a notorious expert hacker who is top priority for the FBI.

FBI Agent Sean Nichols, who lives in Washington, DC, receives a call that the WITSEC database has been breached, and he needs to take his RED team to Portland to investigate. The hacker is believed to be Phantom, and he is selling WITSEC data for ten thousand dollars per person. Four people have already been attacked. Sean and Taylor worked together on another case about six months ago, but all their correspondence was online. They’ve continued their friendship since then, both only online and over the phone, divulging emotions and building a relationship. Both are stopped in their tracks when they see each other for the first time. It’s an instant attraction that might have happened even if they didn’t already have an online relationship.

Together, Sean, Taylor, and three members of Sean’s Rapid Emergency Deployment (RED) team, work at a frantic pace to find the database breach and the person who is responsible. Their own stubbornness and emotions keep getting in the way of doing their job. Can they work together to find Phantom before the potential murders of many vulnerable witnesses? Or will Phantom outsmart them again and escape their grasp once again?

SECONDS TO LIVE opens with a dramatic escape scene and escalates from there. The storyline runs at break-neck speed with many supporting characters lending their expertise to help bring Phantom down. Sean and Taylor are strong-willed, passionate leading characters who know their jobs and do them well. They experience many awkward moments, as they have shared their hurts, disappointments and faith with each other for the past six months. Will they let their baggage from the past keep them from committing to a future together? Award-winning author Susan Sleeman brings us a new inspirational series entitled Homeland Heroes. . . Filled with cyber technology and talented characters on both sides of the law. SECONDS TO LIVE is a story about trust, both trusting in ourselves and trusting God. If inspirational thrillers are your genre, do not miss this book!

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