Dangerous Games

Dangerous Games is a 2007 romantic suspense novel by Lora Leigh and the second book in the Tempting SEALs series. It was published by St. Martin's Paperbacks as a 352-page paperback.

The two leads are connected before the plot begins, since Morganna is the sister of Clint's closest friend, and that relationship is what makes the situation uncomfortable for him. She has been working undercover with the DEA on a case involving a date-rape drug, which places her inside an operation that is both criminal and personal, and his return from a foreign deployment puts him in the middle of it without having chosen to be there.

St. Martin's published the sequence in paperback, and the combination of a professional military setting with an explicit romance was one of the reliable markets of the period. The novel works by doubling the danger: she is undercover inside a criminal operation and he arrives without knowing it, so the threat to her comes from the case as much as from the man she has been warned about. The attraction is mutual from the start, which leaves the secrecy rather than the romance as the source of trouble.