Special Agent's Perfect Cover
“What have they done to you?”
Cold Plains, Wyoming, should be a ghost town. Then why are its once-decaying streets gleaming? And why are there only beautiful, smiling Stepford-like wives in those streets? Hawk Bledsoe wants to know…because the woman who broke his heart seems to be one of them.
Carly Finn is stunned to see Hawk return to town as an FBI agent tracking a serial killer. Hawk doesn’t know why she once ended their romance so cruelly—or how much Carly sacrificed for him. But now the two must risk their lives to expose the town’s monstrous secret. And danger only revives the desire both try their hardest to resist....
Hawk’s emotions were still all in a jumble and he was at a loss how to sort everything all out.
“I thought that Grayson...I was afraid that you...”
None of this was coming out right.
“Damn it, Carly,” he all but exploded, thinking of what
might
have happened to her. “I don’t like you taking these kinds of chances.”
“You don’t have the right to tell me not to do this, you know,” she reminded him.
“I know," he answered,” but just thinking that something could have happened to you—”
Hawk couldn’t bring himself to finish his sentence. Instead, he abruptly pulled her into his arms and kissed her. Kissed her hard, as if there was no tomorrow because, for all he knew, there wasn’t one.
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Dear Reader,
Come with me to a little town called Cold Plains, Wyoming, where everything is perfect...or is it? Beneath its gleaming exterior are dark secrets and an even darker heart at work to turn this once rough-and-tumble town into a gleaming metropolis. But to what end?
This question is what brings FBI special agent Hawk Bledsoe reluctantly back to the town he’d left behind ten years ago. Left behind because Carly Finn, the girl he’d loved, suddenly told him she didn’t love him. Through a strange twist of fate, they have to join forces to unlock the secrets holding the town prisoner and save her younger sister. All this while trying
not
to fall in love again.
I hope you enjoy this first installment of Perfect, Wyoming. As ever, I thank you for reading, and from the bottom of my heart, I wish you someone to love who loves you back.
Marie Ferrarella
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Contents
Prologue
M
icah Grayson wasn’t sure what had possessed him to turn on the TV in the pristine, upscale hotel room that he was occupying for the day. He wasn’t exactly the kind of man who craved company or needed to fill the silence.
Hell, in his particular chosen “line of work,” silence and stealth were two of his best tools. He had no desire to listen to music or watch anything that might be on the big screen TV that came with the price of the first-class room. For that matter, he only kept up on world affairs insofar as to learn about what region of the world he’d most likely be going to next.
But after methodically going through his own mental checklist and making sure that the room was clear of bugs—not the kind with legs but the kind that could get a man killed—he’d absently switched on the set and sank down on the bed, thinking about his next move.
The grim voice of the newscaster didn’t even penetrate his consciousness.
Not until her picture was flashed on the screen.
Very little caught Micah off guard these days. His life was literally riding on this fact, that he was always prepared for any and all contingencies and could act accordingly.
But seeing her face knocked the wind out of him. More than that, it was as if he’d just been on the receiving end of an iron fist aimed straight for his gut.
Because according to the newscaster, the woman in the photograph was dead. And when he had last seen her, a million years ago, before life had gotten so immensely complicated and they had gone their separate ways, Johanna had been very much alive.