Category: Romance Publisher: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC
ISBN-10: 1934912174
Type: Fiction
Pages: 174
Copyright: June 2009
ISBN-13: 9781934912171
When undercover police officer Shane Hawke is sent to infiltrate one of the world’s most cutthroat international crime rings, he finds more than he bargained for. While the woman chosen to be the crime lord’s personal body guard is in far over her head, Shane might also be in over his head … over her.
Code name: Shane Sin.
Mission: Capture the assassin’s heart.
When undercover police officer Shane Hawke is sent to infiltrate one of the world’s most cutthroat international crime rings, he finds more than he bargained for. While the woman chosen to be the crime lord’s personal body guard is in far over her head, Shane might also be in over his head … over her.
Plucked from the streets and groomed for a life of high stakes theft, Haley has become the most trusted in her team of jewel thieves, never guessing how deep the level of evil around her goes—and without a way to escape it when the truth comes out. Can she trust the mysterious Shane Sin to protect her? The alternative could cost her her love—and maybe even her life.
Excerpt
He was very much a bachelor. The bottle of cologne, shaving cream, and razor seemed part of the décor on his dark stained wood dresser. She knew it was wrong to be relieved he wasn’t married. It really shouldn’t matter since there could never be anything between them.
But curiosity got the better of her as she opened the top drawer, half expecting, and hoping, to find some hint he was involved with someone. She found his underwear, rolled perfectly and tucked with organization of color. Unable to fight the oncoming grin, she let it slip and then searched the drawer with her hand.
Just as she figured, she found something hard inside. She pulled the item out of its resting place and let out a short gasp.
A semi-automatic, holstered in a black leather glove, shined brilliantly in the dim light of the room. She unsheathed it and studied it carefully. This definitely wasn’t standard issue for a cop. What was he doing with something so powerful? And more importantly, why was it dressed with a silencer?
She studied the weapon in fascination. It was beautiful, black metallic like the shine from a car. It was easy to grip. The scope was waxed, perfectly aligned as she stared down the line and fingered the trigger.
“I could stand here and watch this all day,” his voice called from the doorway.
Startled, she stuffed the gun back inside the holster and then the drawer. She turned to face him, the guilty look on her face won over the shyness of being caught completely naked.
He walked to her, reached down, and then closed the drawer as if telling her in a nice way to stay out of it. Maybe he was.
“You don’t have to ask,” he said, eyeing her body with a look of intent. “It’s my undercover weapon.”
“I was only looking for soap,” she said nervously as she folded her arms across her chest.
“You were snooping.” He chuckled. “There’s soap in the linen closet, where most soap is normally kept.”
He pushed a strand of her hair over her shoulder making her shiver slightly. He groped her body with his eyes and she thought f
Crystal Reed thought she had met the perfect man. Instead she finds herself entangled in a web of obsessive love and dark secrets, a world that has become tainted by deception and treachery.