Counting Coup — Susan Smith

Dr. Nova Orlovic, known as “the Chief” -- she's half-Cheyenne -- is on the warpath again. After her team uncovered the inconvenient truth as to how her second husband had died, President Lincoln Todd circles his wagons in major damage control. And it's payback, bigtime, for the Chief when she's indicted for the murder of her first husband eleven years ago. Then a tyrant, eager to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction, gives Nova an offer she can't refuse. In exchange for her expertise in nuclear physics, he tempts her with new revelations about both her husbands' deaths, perhaps clearing her name. But by “counting coup” with her enemies on both sides of the ocean, will the Chief lose the Commander, her latest love, as well as unwittingly unleash the dogs of war? Counting Coup is the sequel to Book 1 of The Commander and the Chief series, His Tribe of One.