The Gifted Series by Marie Treanor

Deceit and desire, and a treasure beyond price... When struggling Scottish writer Nell Black accepts a one-off job with the police, translating for an arson suspect from the isolated ex-Soviet republic of Zavrekestan, she stumbles into a terrifying world of organized crime and paranormal abilities that turns her whole belief system upside down... moreDeceit and desire, and a treasure beyond price... When struggling Scottish writer Nell Black accepts a one-off job with the police, translating for an arson suspect from the isolated ex-Soviet republic of Zavrekestan, she stumbles into a terrifying world of organized crime and paranormal abilities that turns her whole belief system upside down. Faced with an incomparable thief, hit men who spontaneously combust, gangsters, drug dealers, British Intelligence and a fiery goddess, Nell no longer knows who to trust. The man who saves her life is a criminal to whom deceit is second nature. He has more smoke screens and more plans in motion than anyone else can keep track of. He is, moreover, probably insane. Even his fellow gangsters are afraid of him. So why is he the one man Nell wants to touch her? Rodion Kosar is in trouble. His convoluted plans all lead to one goal - the retrieval of his treasure - and to achieve that, he needs Nell to believe he isn't the bad guy. He has many reasons beyond his own desires to make love to her. Especially when a plan goes wrong and he has to play dead before someone really kills him - either the police, the menacing Russian crime lord known as the Bear, or the powerful Guardian of the Gifted whom he's defied once too often. Nell's burgeoining gift of second sight could be his best route to the treasure, and yet keeping her with him spells danger. For Nell has her own agenda, her own mission, and she could just as easily cause his final downfall. less

Darkness and light in one dangerous, irresistible stranger... Down to earth psychologist Jenna Hunt arrives in obscure Zavrekestan to find her missing friend, Nell, last seen with notorious gangster Rodion Kosar. But nothing goes the way Jen intended. Complete strangers want to harm her. She shoots one man and travels with another who may or may not be the elusive Kosar, but who's constantly pursued by armed secret police... moreDarkness and light in one dangerous, irresistible stranger... Down to earth psychologist Jenna Hunt arrives in obscure Zavrekestan to find her missing friend, Nell, last seen with notorious gangster Rodion Kosar. But nothing goes the way Jen intended. Complete strangers want to harm her. She shoots one man and travels with another who may or may not be the elusive Kosar, but who's constantly pursued by armed secret police. Dangerous attraction flares, adding excitement as well as unexpected fun to her search. But Jen's dark, mysterious travelling companion is both gifted and cursed. A powerful healer with blood on his conscience and a terrible tragedy in his past, he's now suffering agonies whenever he exercises his gift, and in this he's not alone. As Jen is drawn deeper into his world of radical dissidents and the paranormally gifted, she discovers the terrors of a ruthless government which will stop at nothing to hold onto power. She finds herself risking all to help the very people she came to rescue Nell from, and neither common sense nor principles can keep her from the arms of the sexy, tormented Nikolai. less

Seduction is dangerous; love is lethal... In the isolated republic of Zavrekestan, home of the largest population of gifted psychics in the world, Roza Varenka is sorting out her life, and making use of her rare gift to protect the life of Opposition leader Lily Simonova during the election that could rescue her country from poverty and repression. But when she encounters the dreaded secret police, her life explodes into intrigue, assassination and dangerous sensuality... moreSeduction is dangerous; love is lethal... In the isolated republic of Zavrekestan, home of the largest population of gifted psychics in the world, Roza Varenka is sorting out her life, and making use of her rare gift to protect the life of Opposition leader Lily Simonova during the election that could rescue her country from poverty and repression. But when she encounters the dreaded secret police, her life explodes into intrigue, assassination and dangerous sensuality. For Suvakin, her enemy and interrogator, is both more and less than he seems, a troubled man of baffling contradictions; and yet Roza is drawn to him as to no one else she’s ever met. Temptation becomes seduction, intensified by the desire of each to persuade the other to their cause. Only no one knows what Suvakin’s cause really is, and truth and lies are in danger of merging as he fights to save the woman he loves beyond sense and against all his training. less