Special Agent Francesca Cover
Title:
Special Agent Francesca
Author: Mimi Barbour
Release:
April 5, 2014
Synopsis:
An introvert,
Special Agent Francesca moves to Las Vegas to escape her powerful, domineering
mother. On arrival, multiple obstacles challenge her. She needs to approach a
father she’s never met, a man who doesn’t even know she exists. Then she must
play the role of a loving fiancée with a stranger. One who makes her question
every unexpected emotion he provokes. Craving the chance for real undercover
work, she grabs the opportunity to be involved in cleaning up gang corruption
in a nasty neighborhood. When she poses as the new owner of a hotel, the
deadly-dangerous situation ramps up and she’s forced to fight her way from one
conflict to the next.
Sean Collins,
Psychiatrist and LVPD Profiler, has never known anyone like Francesca Donovan.
From first sight, he believes her to be a screwball but her beauty and
maddening personality attracts him. Despite her prickly disposition, which gets
them into a load of trouble, her rotten driving skills and her constant
battles, he’s hooked. Once he’s roped into a mock engagement with her, his
desire to make it real takes precedence over everything else in his world.
Author Pic:
Author Bio:
Author of The Vicarage
Bench Series, Angels
with Attitude Series, Vegas
Series, Elvis Series and the brand new sizzling romantic suspense series called
Undercover FBI. Mimi lives on the East coast of Vancouver Island and
writes her romances with tongue in cheek and a mad glint in her eye. “If I can
steal a booklover’s attention away from their every-day grind, absorb them into
a fantasy love story, and make them care about the ending, then I’ve done my
job.”
Social Media Links:
Website:
http://www.mimibarbour.com/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MIMIBARBOUR
Excerpt:
Sean Collins shared the seat kitty-corner in
the four-booth set-up. He’d worked late trying to get a patient through a
crisis and had gotten as far as the steak house, before hunger grabbed hold and
dragged his sorry ass inside. Exhaustion had left his eyes gritty and his brain
twisted like a pretzel, but two male voices still got through. Listening to a
man unloading on his buddy about a mistaken one-night stand had his attention
pretty darn quick.
When the friend’s advice matched with his
own ideals of truthfulness between a husband and his wife, he found himself
nodding. He didn’t agree with the jerk’s reasoning about being a player but he
his basic counsel of honesty was sound.
Not that he was married; hadn’t found a
woman he could trust further than he could throw her. What was it with the
females in the state of Nevada? Did they all have to get caught up in the hype
of the fun city?
Suddenly, a female voice entered his
awareness. The husky note in the slightly slurred words was pleasing and he
concentrated on what she was saying.
“Don’t listen to your friend. Not only is he an asshole, he’s full of shit.
If you love your wife, then don’t tell her—ever.”
What the
hell?
The screwball continued in the same vein,
proceeding to give unwanted advice to a man who was in a fragile state and
probably willing to listen to anything that would get him off the hot seat.
Sean came close to standing up and cutting
her off. If he weren’t so tired, he’d have given her a piece of advice. Mind
your own business! As a psychologist and profiler who often worked with the
cops and saw every kind of misfit out there, he knew she’d most likely wrecked
this man’s life. In her final statement, she let the poor guy have it with both
barrels.
“In
my way of thinking, being the best husband and father you can be will go some
ways to making up for being the miserable, lyin’, cheating prick that you are.”
Sean heard the noise of a chair being knocked over, a grunted swearword and
light footsteps heading toward the door.
Something beyond his power to control
brought him to his feet. The redheaded advice-giver stopped and their eyes
caught for as long as it took her to stumble. Hers were pure liquid heat, the
bluest blue he’d ever seen. Her glance slid past him as she straightened the
chair and carefully manoeuvered her way to the door. The light over the entrance caught the
coppery-gold highlights in the mane of loose hair flowing every which way over
her shoulders and down her slight back. She bumped into the doorframe on her
way out, stopped, re-aligned herself and then the nut-job was gone.
Stunned, he slid back down into his booth
and the truth hit him. Hell, in Las Vegas there was every kind of mental
disorder, maladjusted behavior, psychosis, neurosis and insanity a person could
imagine, but some just blew the others right out of the murky pool. That
stunning deranged wacko, whose fabulous long legs might get a man to do almost
anything in order to get his hands on them, had just ended his otherwise shitty
day perfectly. What a fucking shame!
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