Closer – read an extract from the new steamy thriller!
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“I love you, whoever the hell you are.”
What do you do when you fall for the wrong man, and national security is at stake? All Cassie Deane wanted to do was get in, do her job, and get out. She didn’t want complications. She didn’t want anyone to get too close…
All Matt Scullery wanted to do was live a happy life – and, after a lifetime of false starts, he thought he’d found the answer. He’d found Cassie. But what do you do when you find out the person you love is not the person you fell for? And now she’s gone missing – and left behind a ‘Go’ bag containing fake ID, burner phones, and a gun…
A standalone steamy romantic thriller of high-flying political intrigue and wrongdoing set in the world of off-the-books intelligence service, Section Eight, a world where it makes sense to keep your enemies… Closer.
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Some early reader reviews at Amazon and Goodreads:
“This book has it all! Suspense, danger, revenge, secrets, betrayal, action, unexpected plot twists, a great storyline that keeps you turning the pages, oh, and some hot sex scenes.”
“Wow! This is a great book … I haven’t read a book in long time that held my attention this much. I highly recommend it!”
“Full of suspense, action, deceit, unexpected turns and twists, and of course, a love story like no other, this book is so intense, you won’t want to put it down… What an awesome read!”
“Suspenseful, intriguing, steamy, and well written book with unexpected twists in the plot. Fantastic book!”
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Excerpt
“She was using you. For some unknown reason she’d worked her way into your life, but…”
He shrugged his broad frame. Left me to fill in the gaps.
Napier had never liked Cassie. He’d made no secret of that. I’d always put that down to jealousy on his part. Not a sexual thing: although
Napier was quite open about his sexuality, I’d always known I was not his type. But our friendship went back years, to when he’d taken me under
his wing when we were in our early teens – he joked that protecting the weedy scholarship boy from the boarding school bullies had been his
first venture into public service. We shared a history, and a closeness, that could only change when I became so besotted with the new love of
my life.
Maybe I’d been wrong, though. Maybe Napier’s distrust of Cassie had not been jealousy, but rather a rare case of insight from a man who
usually – quite naively – saw the best in those around him.
“What was she doing? Why would she… work her way into my life?”
“No ordinary woman carries a handgun and a fake passport in her luggage,” Napier said.
Again, it felt as if my brain was struggling through mud just to keep up.
Was I merely cover? Part of the disguise of a very ordinary life? Or… “You,” I said. “She was using me to get to you.”
Stewart Napier. Public figure. Always wheeling and dealing behind the scenes of national and international politics. Always in and out of the
Houses of Parliament and Downing Street. Confidant of government ministers even while he served as a consultant and strategist for the populist
Way Forward movement, trying to forge a new kind of politics for the 21st Century.
“Maybe,” he said now. “Maybe not. But it’s a possibility to consider, is it not?”
“Why, though? What was she hoping to achieve?”
“That’s a question for me and my chief security advisor, right after I’ve given him a swift kick up that tight little ass of his.”
I stared. For all the casual dismissal of my concerns earlier, Napier was taking this very seriously.
“You really think…?”
“I don’t know,” Napier said. “But what I do know is that an armed professional has insinuated herself into my entourage. Whatever her
reasons, that should never have been allowed to happen.”
“God, Napier. I’m so sorry, I–”
“Oh, don’t concern yourself,” Napier said, clapping that hand on my arm again. “I don’t blame you. Hell, laddie, my heart goes out to you.
I’ve seen your heart broken far too many times – you always give it away too easily. I hate to see you this way.”
He made me sound like a serial philanderer – and loser.
The latter, perhaps, but this was different. I’d never felt about anyone the way I felt about Cassie.
Whoever, or whatever, she really was.
“You’re well rid of her, Mattie, believe me. Whatever’s become of her – on the run or dead, even – you’ll see it’s a blessing in the long
run.”
I knew he was right. I understood that.
But his words cut deep, giving shape to my darkest fears.
And by saying them out loud it felt as if my old friend had made those possibilities very real indeed.
(continues…)
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