False Front (Bishop Security #1)

by Debbie Baldwin

Nathan Bishop was a scoundrel. A pig. A shark. A wolf. A fox. A dog. He was the entire zoo.

Emma Porter was a comfortably well-off, attractive college graduate, living in the big city and cutting her teeth as a reporter.

Emily Webster was an American tragedy; the daughter of one of the richest families in the world, abducted as a child and never found. She was the twenty-first century Lindbergh baby.

He would sell the Japanese instrument of destruction discovered by the Manchurian workers, kill the daughter of the man who had killed his, and live out his days with a sense of completion, with some notion of solace.

I’m not sure ‘love’ is the word I would use for you. I have loved in my life. I love my mom and my brothers. I loved my dog.” He stopped to run the backs of his knuckles down her face. “But you . . . it’s like ‘love’ isn’t a big enough word for what I feel. Like they need to invent some new word for it because what I feel for you makes love seem very small.”