Strategic Entanglements: Gripping suspense, explosive sexual chemistry, and cat and mouse intrigue

by D.E. Knightley

"Beautifully scripted with a dazzling plot rich in intrigue, tension, and first class dialogue, this is a remarkably fine debut novel by an author of significance! Recommended." - Amazon Top 100 reviewer 

"I get the same feeling reading Kendra as I get from reading Jack Reacher." - Amazon reviewer 

On Terra, the empire of Basur calls the shots and everybody else gets into line. Almost everybody…

The Askar get into line for no-one. They don’t seem to know when they’re beaten. Ruthless, indomitable, they are capable of anything. Like kidnapping a DSS officer for interrogation from the streets of Basur’s own capital.

Kendra Veiss, the officer in question, should be dead. Instead, she walks out of an Askari black site without a scratch on her. That’s enough excitement for a while, even for a girl who works for the Basuri DSS — the most powerful intelligence organisation on Terra. But it proves only the beginning of a cat and mouse game between her and Aran Reiner.

Reiner, an Askari secret service agent, engineered her release. Now he’s hanging around her like a hungry stray. She’s indebted to him, but he’s bad, bad news. Untrustworthy, manipulative. Dangerous to herself and a crucial DSS asset she must protect at all costs. But his arresting looks pull her like a magnet, stopping her breath, making her ache to yield to temptation.

What does Reiner really want? And how far would he go to get it?

Strategic Entanglements is the first novel in a series set in the gritty, dangerous world of espionage on an alternative Earth of the future called Terra. For fans of spy intrigue, action-packed suspense, forbidden attraction and inconvenient, deadly love triangles.

PLEASE This novel features adult language and situations, and is not for people of sensitive or nervous disposition.  It is set in a physically dangerous and morally grey world. The characters in it are complex and extremely interesting, but they are not nice. You have been warned.

322 pages, Paperback

Published December 6, 2019

About the author

D.E. Knightley is a former lawyer who, despite this handicap, managed to live on multiple continents and learn to speak multiple languages. She eventually met a wonderful man and settled with him in Australia, where they produced one wonderful, though very bossy, child.
She is now more of a peacemaker by trade instead of a corporate warrior, and recently published her first novel, Strategic Entanglements: an action-packed, sexy espionage thriller set on an alternative Earth.


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