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Spies Don't Fall for Their Asset
Romance
Spies Don't Fall for Their Asset
Book 1 of the Romancing the Spy series
460 pages · First published 2023
A capable intelligence operative is assigned to protect and work with an asset whose importance to the mission makes personal involvement a very bad idea. Close quarters, danger, and the constant need to distinguish performance from truth make professional boundaries increasingly difficult to maintain. As the operation grows more complicated, trust becomes as important as tradecraft and attraction becomes another vulnerability an enemy could exploit. This clean romantic comedy uses spy-thriller trappings to build a lighthearted forbidden-workplace romance around two people who are supposed to keep the mission strictly professional.
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Violence, weapons, and peril · Mild romantic content, including kissing
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