Sandra Walsh was a deadly sniper for the Sweet Briar Group, a
covert agency with assassins for hire, until her last mission went horribly
wrong, accidentally killing an innocent girl. Knowing she’s a danger to her
team, Sandra goes off the grid, becoming a Shade—an agent declared dead but
secretly hiding among the living. She intends to honor her vow never to pull
another trigger or have contact with the spy world again. Until she meets
Casper Grady…
Grady is a former Marine with a troubled
past and a debt to pay. His life mission has gone from protecting the nation to
helping local children and their families. The moment he meets Sandra, he knows
there’s more to her than meets the eye, but he can’t help but be drawn to the
mysterious femme fatale. And when Sandra’s past suddenly catches up to her,
Grady is determined to protect her at all costs, no matter how dark and
dangerous her secrets are.
As the danger increases, so does their
intense attraction. But when they’re forced to choose between each other and
the people they’ve sworn to protect, their growing love might not be enough to
keep them together—or alive…
Grady had had enough of the bullshit. Too many people were dropping in, and he was tired of being the only one who didn’t know the whole story. He needed to jump-start the explanations, and the best way to do that was to go for the throat.
He lifted his chin and locked gazes with
Cappy. He held up his fingers and started counting. “Cappy, Wraith, Talon,
Romeo, Magician. Not your typical Christian names. Add to that Sandra’s confession
that she’s a former sniper and Lethal Fuzzball Boy’s acclamation of her
world-famous skill before she ‘died’ and became Jesus with her resurrection . .
. I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re the Commanding Officer of this
clandestine team, right? Trained with them in Kansas and now lead everyone on
missions? Tell me, does the company you work for start with a big
C?”
Cappy stiffened, and the reserved
expression on his face eclipsed into a thundercloud. “What. The. Fuck?”
“Here we go,” Romeo muttered, but everyone
heard due to the sudden silence at the man’s bellow. Even the sun seemed to
pause its ascent in the sky for a moment. “Someone had better start talking,”
Cappy demanded in his gruff voice. “And, yes, I mean you, Wraith.” He spread
his weight over his feet and slapped his hands on his hips.
Sandra lifted her chin and met the CO’s
incensed stare. If her arm hadn’t been touching his, he wouldn’t have known
that a tremor raced through her before she opened her mouth. “I made the decision
to fill Grady in on details I thought he should know. Especially after an
assassin took shots at his head earlier this evening.”
“Granger,” Talon inserted, crossing his
arms.
Cappy’s eyes flashed and his jaw hardened.
He dipped his chin once as if to acknowledge Talon’s contribution and began to
pace. “So, despite the oaths you took, you decided to compromise this team by
talking to an outsider?”
“Yes.”
“And what else does he know?”
Grady hated being talked around. “Not
nearly enough,” he stated bluntly, not caring that Sandra now gripped his arm
as if to warn him to back off. Grady had this guy’s number. He was completely
lethal, no doubt, but he also seemed to be levelheaded and fair. Time to test
that theory. “For example, why do you all act like Sandra’s a ghost? Why would
a confessed sniper be insinuating herself into my company as an Operations
Manager? Why was a gunman shooting at us earlier? Why did Calvin and Hobbes
here”—he pointed to Talon and Romeo—“decide it’s better to break in than knock
on the door?”
P.A. DePaul is a multi-genre romance author
including paranormal fantasy and romantic suspense. She originally hails
from Carroll County and Baltimore County, Maryland, but also lived in
Macon and Warner Robins, Georgia. She currently resides in a beautiful
community just outside Philadelphia. Exchange of Fire is the first novel
in the SBG series with the second novel, Shadow of Doubt, releasing April
2015
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