Egypt

The Golden Goblet - Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Scholastic, January 1992 (c1961), ISBN: 0591445529, 248p.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw is the author of one of my favorite books, Mara, Daughter of the Nile.  On top of that, his book is set in Egyptian history and is a Newbery Honor book.  I couldn't pass it by.

What is The Secret? A question worth asking, but perhaps, what is the
source of The Secret would be a better one. I asked that question and I

Mate of the Wolf by Karen Whiddon (Nocturne Bite, 2008)

Copied Blurb:

Rule Number One--Date only Pack members.... She knew he was definitely not part of the Pack, but the immediate intense attraction Allie felt for Kane overwhelmed her good sense and convinced her to toss her rules out the window. The fact that she couldn't detect his scent did not concern her--she knew he was unlike any man she'd ever known, and she had to be with him, whatever the cost. He couldn't believe she didn't recognize him--he'd known instantly what she was. After four hundred years, Kane had finally found his Svetla, his one true mate. But a union between their two races was expressly forbidden. So now it was time for Kane to break some rules of his own....

AJ Cooper is a rookie on her first mission - she was top of the class in training but that was before she got shot and had a near death experience - and as the book opens she is supposed to have just killed Fazur Raazaq but in reality she just sniped a lantern, alerting his men and getting one of the guys on her team shot when she freezes and screws up the job.  They flee but AJ gets knocked out and taken prisoner and while her team leader Kane Wright (who she also has a hero worshipping, sexual chemistry crush on) is getting her out, their uninjured 4th team member is tortured and killed at their safe spot. 

Night Life
Author: Elizabeth Guest
Copyright: 2007 (Berkeley Sensation); pgs. 289
Series: 1st in the Pharaohs Rising series
Sensuality: Hot