When a beautiful hotel investigator teams up with an irresistible Navy SEAL, going undercover could take them over the top . . .   Two FBI agents are dead. A top-secret government lab animal has been stolen. Now Hawk MacKenzie just walked in on a naked woman in his hotel shower. She says she’s royalty and has the attitude to match.  Whether this arousing female is a true blue-blood or not, the combat-trained Navy SEAL isn’t letting her out of his sight. Actually a hotel investigator in disguise, Jess Mulcahey can’t believe she’s being held against her will by this gorgeous commando who’s about to blow her cover. Lucky for her, she’s good at narrow escapes. But just when she hits the road, dodging bullets and outwitting cold-blooded pursuers, her luck bottoms out . . . and Hawk is her only hope of protection. A few stolen hours in a stalled elevator show Jess a different, more sensual side to the hard-edged SEAL. Now the two are closing in on their missing government secrets and trying hard to ignore their memories. . . . But they’re about to discover that the most dangerous revelations come from an unguarded heart. . . . There are lots of parallels between this latest Skye Navy SEAL adventure and its companion novel Code Name: Nanny. There's a handsome wounded SEAL, a woman working undercover, a beautiful stranger in the shower, and, of course, Skye's reappearing character, the extremely sexy Izzy Teague. Jess Mulcahey, a hotel evaluator, checks in to hotels pretending to be a minor European princess and checks out the services, facilities, and bribability of the staff. When Lieutenant Hawk Mackenzie returns to his hotel room after searching for a kidnapped and very special research animal, he finds a stranger in his room. And Jess, the twin sister of FBI agent Summer Mulcahey from Code Name: Nanny , must dash after filing her report. When bad weather interferes, the claustrophobic inspector finds herself locked in an elevator with the SEAL, who is experiencing the libido of a teenager because of an experimental medication. Skye is unsurpassed at combining adventure and romance, but readers may want to read the companion novel first to know the twins' background. Diana Tixier Herald Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved "Action-packed!" —Publishers Weekly Jess Mulcahey's life gets complicated in a hurray when she finds herself babysitting a top-secret koala bear. As Jess's world gets tossed into the whirlwind of Navy SEALS and ransom deadlines, her best hope may be to hang on for the ride. With CODE NAME: PRINCESS, Christina Skye features her signature blend of seduction and adventure that readers have come to love. Jess Mulcahey's life gets complicated in a hurray when she finds herself babysitting a top-secret koala bear. As Jess's world gets tossed into the whirlwind of Navy SEALS and ransom deadlines, her best hope may be to hang on for the ride. With CODE NAME: PRINCESS, Christina Skye features her signature blend of seduction and adventure that readers have come to love. Christina Skye holds a Ph.D. in classical Chinese poetry. She has traveled to China and Asia many times, has been featured on Geraldo! , ABC Weekend News, the Arthur Frommer Show, Travel News Network, Voice of America, and Looking East. She curated one of the most popular exhibitions to date at the National Geographic Society's Explorer Hall in Washington and authored four critically acclaimed books on Chinese art, one of which was called "beautifully and lovingly crafted" by the London Times . She began writing fiction in 1990 and has currently written 16 novels. chapter 1 Ten hours later Washington State, near the Canadian border The wind hit him like an ice pick from hell. It was a nasty night in a week of nasty nights, but Hawk Mackenzie barely noticed. After twelve years as a Navy SEAL, bad nights were his specialty. He studied the rugged terrain around him. Layered tracks led across the cliffs and then turned sharply, looping back to the road. They'd stopped here for a break. As Hawk maneuvered his powerful off-road motorcycle through ankle-high mud, his encrypted cell phone began to beep. "Mackenzie here." "This is Teague. What have you got?" "Motorcycle tracks. Probably a dozen or so, but only three sets look fresh. Hold on." Hawk smiled grimly. "Someone's been through here recently, Izzy. Thanks to the rain, most of the detail is gone, but I'd say we're talking three dirt bikes." He ran a flashlight over the wet, freshly gouged earth. "The tracks heading back to the road appear to be deeper, too. Before they turned around, they picked up more weight." Since the man on the other end of the line was one of the government's finest security operatives, Hawk knew every word between them was being recorded. After the call was complete, every detail would be tracked and analyzed. "You're sure they had more weight when they left?" "No doubt about it." Hawk pulled out a digital camera a