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Secret Agent #4
Assignment: Bodyguard
Her father will accept only the best for Kit Atkins's protection. So when Kit is threatened, he calls on Shane Warwick, a CHAIM agent. Shane is calm, capable, protective—and way too charming for Kit's peace of mind. Yet despite her protests, Shane refuses to leave her side. As they hide out at a remote Texas ranch, a powerful bond grows between them, even as danger rises. Connections to the mysterious death of Kit's late husband reveal old betrayals. Suddenly, Kit's assigned bodyguard is the only person she can trust.
203 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2010
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Lenora Worth
277 books381 followersLenora Worth has written 75 books for three different publishers. She reached a milestone when she received her 50th book pin from Harlequin. Her books have won both regional and national awards and she now has millions of books in print and is a NY Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author. Currently she is writing both Love Inspired and Love Inspired Suspense and Tule Publishing. Married to her childhood sweetheart, Lenora has two grown children and lives in Florida.
Pen name: Lenora Nazworth
Pen name: Lenora Nazworth
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May 22, 2024
Good characters and story.
July 23, 2013
Oye. I was looking for something to read on a Sunday and this is a Christian fiction book I picked up because it sounded James Bond-like.
Gag me. Sorry to people who like these sort of serial romances, but WOW, it was CHEESY. And the writing? Can you say amateur? The plot was weak, the premise was dumb, and it was just overall meh. The only reason I'm giving it two stars is because despite everything else, I liked the main characters (I half-liked them.) and wanted them to get together in the end.
Kit had a bit of TSTL Syndrome going on. When a secret agent tells you what to do, you listen, okay? Trust their judgment... watching spy shows does not make you smarter than a real-life spy. And he was BOSSY. I know that is seemingly contradictory, but just because you're giving someone direction doesn't mean you should do it in a condescending way. Maybe it was because he was British.
Oh, and what was with the British/Texas thing? Do members of the British aristocracy find Texas alluring? Based on old western movies? Do they (and the author) think we Texans ride around on horseback, wear stetsons, and listen to country music all day? Can you say STEREOTYPE? We have CITIES in Texas, too! I haven't ridden a horse since my 7th grade class trip, I've never owned or really worn a cowboy hat, and I can BARELY STAND most country music. I do know that there are still ranches and stuff. I prefer to stay inside where it's air conditioned. Suffice it to say, I didn't particularly like her betrayal of MODERN DAY Texas.
(Note: That paragraph was exceedingly hypocritical, as I'm a modern day Texan obsessed with British historical romance novels. Just fyi there...)
Anyway, this book isn't worth getting worked up about. At all. Except that I do have to say one more thing:
I find the idea of an organization like CHAIM disturbing. Top secret Christian spies going around helping others by using maximum force? Excuse me? I don't know. I mean, it's not like Christians can't be spies... or police officers for that matter... but I find the idea of the organization being founded specifically on Christian principles and then condoning that specific type of behavior off. I don't think God would go for that kind of thing.
BLEGH.
Gag me. Sorry to people who like these sort of serial romances, but WOW, it was CHEESY. And the writing? Can you say amateur? The plot was weak, the premise was dumb, and it was just overall meh. The only reason I'm giving it two stars is because despite everything else, I liked the main characters (I half-liked them.) and wanted them to get together in the end.
Kit had a bit of TSTL Syndrome going on. When a secret agent tells you what to do, you listen, okay? Trust their judgment... watching spy shows does not make you smarter than a real-life spy. And he was BOSSY. I know that is seemingly contradictory, but just because you're giving someone direction doesn't mean you should do it in a condescending way. Maybe it was because he was British.
Oh, and what was with the British/Texas thing? Do members of the British aristocracy find Texas alluring? Based on old western movies? Do they (and the author) think we Texans ride around on horseback, wear stetsons, and listen to country music all day? Can you say STEREOTYPE? We have CITIES in Texas, too! I haven't ridden a horse since my 7th grade class trip, I've never owned or really worn a cowboy hat, and I can BARELY STAND most country music. I do know that there are still ranches and stuff. I prefer to stay inside where it's air conditioned. Suffice it to say, I didn't particularly like her betrayal of MODERN DAY Texas.
(Note: That paragraph was exceedingly hypocritical, as I'm a modern day Texan obsessed with British historical romance novels. Just fyi there...)
Anyway, this book isn't worth getting worked up about. At all. Except that I do have to say one more thing:
I find the idea of an organization like CHAIM disturbing. Top secret Christian spies going around helping others by using maximum force? Excuse me? I don't know. I mean, it's not like Christians can't be spies... or police officers for that matter... but I find the idea of the organization being founded specifically on Christian principles and then condoning that specific type of behavior off. I don't think God would go for that kind of thing.
BLEGH.
May 25, 2021
I have read a few of Lenora Worth's books and this one didn't disappoint. I enjoyed how both characters relied on God and prayed for protection. They both were aware of their weaknesses and asked for help from God to make it through.
The story was full of suspense and had me on the edge of my seat. I didn't discover who was behind the attacks on Kit until almost the end. Lots of twists and turns. There were a few things that I thought her bodyguard should have figured out sooner but all in all an entertaining read.
The story was full of suspense and had me on the edge of my seat. I didn't discover who was behind the attacks on Kit until almost the end. Lots of twists and turns. There were a few things that I thought her bodyguard should have figured out sooner but all in all an entertaining read.
June 2, 2022
I really don't know how to say what I felt when I read this one. It was just... weird. It bugged the living daylights out of me. A Christian organisation that helps other Christians keep safe, Ok, nothing wrong with that, I think. But using violence and killing people and praying for everything they did or didn't do, come on! now that's just too... weird (can't think of another word).
Apart from that, the story was interesting. I loved the chemistry between our hero and heroin. I did get a bit frustrated towards the end when everything was supposed to come together and the action was getting "real". But I suppose I was just tired of the... weirdness.
Apart from that, the story was interesting. I loved the chemistry between our hero and heroin. I did get a bit frustrated towards the end when everything was supposed to come together and the action was getting "real". But I suppose I was just tired of the... weirdness.
December 5, 2019
Oh, the was a labor to finish.
Okay, so Kit Atkin's is a widow who's husband had aspirations of changing his career from oil tycoon to political leader before he died in a helicopter crash that was ruled an accident. Kit's father is another powerful man who now runs CHAIM, a christian spy/detective/protection/whatever agency that somehow has some extreme leeway when it comes to the law. When Kit suspects someone of breaking into her office (among other things) her father decides to use his resources and calls in the best of his best, British/American agent Shane Warwick. Shane is a womanizer, who falls fasts then leaves them. He's calm under fire, claims to be capable, claims to be protective, and is bossy in a slightly condescending way.
When Kit is targeted at her own charity event, Shane somehow convinces her to run off with him because he suspects an inside job. Now you think Shane would take her somewhere off grid since CHAIM is spreading the rumor that he and Kit are dating to help explain her disappearance, but he doesn't. No, Shane takes her to his second home, a ranch in Texas that was owned by his father, cause no one would be able to figure out that one (sarcasm).
Somehow in the course of...three days (?) the two of them develop strong feelings for one another and start kissing all about the property, including when they are staking out the roadway. Brilliant (more sarcasm). It takes less then a week for them to decide they love each.
Kit has a mild case of TSTL syndrome and Shane wavers back and forth between being a decent agent and an absolute idiot. He just assumes his house is safe, doesn't have someone watching the security system most of the time, doesn't call in for back up until there is a supposed attempt on Kit after someone sneaks onto the property, doesn't check Kit or her stuff for bugs/tracking devices, takes Kit out to watch the road for a truckload of bad guys, etc. And Kit...she wavers between being a classic Texas Belle and an idiot. She can handle a gun but drops it in shock with the safety off, can expertly drive a small car through the bush and ride a horse but screams and hides in the pantry when she sees someone in the window, doesn't know when to listen and stay put and does this multiple times, decides that she will go headlong into an obvious trap to save her friend...the list goes on and just gets move negative.
All in all this book was a struggle to get through, which is disappointing because it sounded great when I read the synopsis. I'm not going to lie. I 100% sped read the last 88 pages.
Okay, so Kit Atkin's is a widow who's husband had aspirations of changing his career from oil tycoon to political leader before he died in a helicopter crash that was ruled an accident. Kit's father is another powerful man who now runs CHAIM, a christian spy/detective/protection/whatever agency that somehow has some extreme leeway when it comes to the law. When Kit suspects someone of breaking into her office (among other things) her father decides to use his resources and calls in the best of his best, British/American agent Shane Warwick. Shane is a womanizer, who falls fasts then leaves them. He's calm under fire, claims to be capable, claims to be protective, and is bossy in a slightly condescending way.
When Kit is targeted at her own charity event, Shane somehow convinces her to run off with him because he suspects an inside job. Now you think Shane would take her somewhere off grid since CHAIM is spreading the rumor that he and Kit are dating to help explain her disappearance, but he doesn't. No, Shane takes her to his second home, a ranch in Texas that was owned by his father, cause no one would be able to figure out that one (sarcasm).
Somehow in the course of...three days (?) the two of them develop strong feelings for one another and start kissing all about the property, including when they are staking out the roadway. Brilliant (more sarcasm). It takes less then a week for them to decide they love each.
Kit has a mild case of TSTL syndrome and Shane wavers back and forth between being a decent agent and an absolute idiot. He just assumes his house is safe, doesn't have someone watching the security system most of the time, doesn't call in for back up until there is a supposed attempt on Kit after someone sneaks onto the property, doesn't check Kit or her stuff for bugs/tracking devices, takes Kit out to watch the road for a truckload of bad guys, etc. And Kit...she wavers between being a classic Texas Belle and an idiot. She can handle a gun but drops it in shock with the safety off, can expertly drive a small car through the bush and ride a horse but screams and hides in the pantry when she sees someone in the window, doesn't know when to listen and stay put and does this multiple times, decides that she will go headlong into an obvious trap to save her friend...the list goes on and just gets move negative.
All in all this book was a struggle to get through, which is disappointing because it sounded great when I read the synopsis. I'm not going to lie. I 100% sped read the last 88 pages.
April 4, 2024
Very Nice Story
I did not give this a five star as I as a reader or just myself do not suffer fools gladly as the saying goes. Katherine did and said thing on several occasions in the book that were stupid and I don’t think that many woman or man for that matter would do, which left me thinking that she had very few brains….
I did not give this a five star as I as a reader or just myself do not suffer fools gladly as the saying goes. Katherine did and said thing on several occasions in the book that were stupid and I don’t think that many woman or man for that matter would do, which left me thinking that she had very few brains….
August 4, 2017
The widow Kit, who didn't want to admit her marriage was falling apart before her husband's mysterious death was a good concept. I just wish Kit herself had a more even keeled character; as it was, she couldn't effectively carry the plot.
November 4, 2019
i love this book. i just wish there was more. i got into and then of course it was the last chapter.
May 30, 2021
Fast-paced, somewhat cliche romance, but still adorable and had plenty of plot twists to keep it interesting
August 8, 2025
Really exciting book. The male character reminds you of OO7. Pretty good mystery. Enjoyed reading it.
August 8, 2015
Secret Agent
Book 4
In this book, we meet Englishman, Shane Warwick. He has been assigned to watch over a retired CHAIM's daughter, and he gets his money's worth! Kit resents being protected and puts up many a protest. She makes Shane's work harder by resisting his advice and assistance.
The author does a good job in making all these men unique in where they come from and how they talk. But the books are so similar in story-line that I fill I'm just getting another of the same, except changed a bit. But I like them enough and they kept me interested. I really liked the drama in this one surrounding Shane's methods and Kit's resentments.
The romance was okay. They didn't try to stifle things, and that's always great.
Book 4
In this book, we meet Englishman, Shane Warwick. He has been assigned to watch over a retired CHAIM's daughter, and he gets his money's worth! Kit resents being protected and puts up many a protest. She makes Shane's work harder by resisting his advice and assistance.
The author does a good job in making all these men unique in where they come from and how they talk. But the books are so similar in story-line that I fill I'm just getting another of the same, except changed a bit. But I like them enough and they kept me interested. I really liked the drama in this one surrounding Shane's methods and Kit's resentments.
The romance was okay. They didn't try to stifle things, and that's always great.
September 15, 2010
Ok, after Pastor Dev, Eli, Brice, and now Shane, I want a "CHAIM" agent of my own. Minus the danger of course Lol. REALLY enjoyed this book. Although, I confess, I knew the *friend* was the bad guy, er bad girl from the beginning. ABSOLUTELY adored and swooned over Shane *Sigh*, just as I did with Devon, Eli, and Brice from Lenora's other books from her CHAIM series. Loved how he referred to Kit as "Luv". Good, suspenseful, romantic story...GREAT JOB *AGAIN* Lenora!
February 5, 2017
Shane Warwick is hired by Kit Atkins' father to protect her after threatening letters were received.
Her husband died a year ago and now they wonder if his death and the threats are connected. Kit is not good at trust and following orders so causes herself and Shane problems. This is part of the CHAIM agent series. I have loved all of them. Each story is a stand alone and any characters in common are explained.
Her husband died a year ago and now they wonder if his death and the threats are connected. Kit is not good at trust and following orders so causes herself and Shane problems. This is part of the CHAIM agent series. I have loved all of them. Each story is a stand alone and any characters in common are explained.
August 8, 2010
A bodyguard with Texan roots and an English accent is a novel approach to a romance, but this one could have been carried off better. Shane (named after the Western movie) has been hired to protect the widow Kit, who didn't want to admit her marriage was falling apart even before her husband's mysterious death. Great concept, but Kit's character was too uneven to really carry the plotline.
August 24, 2010
Grrrrrr. I cant help but give every book I read 5stars becasue i only pick books that grab me from the very beginning. This book was amazing and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time i was reading it.
October 10, 2015
5 Stars
First off the guy is British, how can you go wrong with a British guy??? I rally like these kinds of books the ones with bodyguards and stuff, Anyway its written very well and its funny. Great book.
First off the guy is British, how can you go wrong with a British guy??? I rally like these kinds of books the ones with bodyguards and stuff, Anyway its written very well and its funny. Great book.
July 27, 2010
Actually, 3 1/2. Stronger female character.
April 19, 2012
Awesome Book!!!!!
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