Friday Memes: Enemy Within by Marcella Burnard

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This week I am spotlighting a book I got at ALA. Enemy Within by Marcella Burnard is a futuristic romance that was published on Nov. 2, 2010. Here is the description:

An intergalactic cold war-and some heated passion- from an inventive new voice in futuristic romance. 

After a stint in an alien prison, Captain Ari Rose wonders why she even bothered to survive. Stripped of her command and banished to her father's scientific expedition to finish a Ph.D. she doesn't want, Ari never planned to languish quietly behind a desk. She wasn't built for it, either. But when pirates commandeer her father's ship, Ari once again becomes a prisoner.

As far as pirate leader Cullin is concerned, Ari's past imprisonment puts her dead center in Cullin's sights. If she hasn't been brainwashed and returned as a spy, then he's convinced she must be part of a traitorous alliance endangering billions of lives. Cullin can't afford the desire she fires within him and he'll stop at nothing, including destroying her, to uncover the truth.

Beginning:

Sun glinting off the barrel of a gun stopped Captain Ari Idylle dead in her tracks. 

Friday 56:

Turrel scoffed. "After seeing her lockouts? Hell, no, I ain't going in that room."