Freedom Does Matter

Mid-summer before her sophomore year at college, Beckie Sverdupe is grooming her horse when she receives horrifying news: her fiancé Ian Jamse has been shot.Leader of a successful mercenary team, Ian's not only Beckie's fiancé; he's her mentor, training her as a team member after she made it clear that, having fallen in love with him, she would make their group more than just soldiers for hire; they'd be more 'socially conscious' mercenaries, with concomitant longer life expectancies....
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Mid-summer before her sophomore year at college, Beckie Sverdupe is grooming her horse when she receives horrifying news: her fiancé Ian Jamse has been shot.Leader of a successful mercenary team, Ian's not only Beckie's fiancé; he's her mentor, training her as a team member after she made it clear that, having fallen in love with him, she would make their group more than just soldiers for hire; they'd be more 'socially conscious' mercenaries, with concomitant longer life expectancies. The current job, an Egyptian land dispute negotiation, supposedly filled that requirement to a tee. Except it hadn't: Ian was dying! Instead of returning to campus for Engineering classes, Beckie kisses Ian's insensate lips and heads to Cairo to complete the negotiations. It's her first solo assignment, and she's determined to finish despite her fears for Ian. Tracking the gunman will be an added challenge spurred by renewed assassination attempts targeting the new mediator: her!Her quest to gain justice-or revenge-for Ian reveals a conspiracy to incite the final Mideast war by killing thousands at iconic Wembley Stadium in London. As she unravels the plot, she comes head-to-head with one man's bitter, intransigent attempts to redefine freedom. Will Ian love her again? Can Beckie thwart the terrorist honcho before the attack and eliminate one hateful voice of irrationality?While Freedom Does Matter is set in the Mercenaries world, it may be enjoyed on its own.