title: Medusa Rising
author: Dees, Cindy
description: She's a doctor. A healer. Can she kill in the name of good?
  
  Dr. Aleesha Gautier had asked herself that question many times since joining the Medusa Project, the United States' first all-woman Special Ops team. Could she take lives -- even to protect national security -- when her every instinct screamed to save them?
  
  Her first official mission -- taking back a hijacked cruise ship -- brought her face-to-face with her greatest fear: bad guys she would have to kill to save innocent lives. And one hijacker who might not be what he appeared. The mission could only end in death -- unless Aleesha's choice to trust the wrong man was right....