Author: Claudia Shelton
Series: The OPAQUE Task
Force
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Pub. Date: November 10, 2015
Format: Digital eBook
ISBN: 978-0-9968226-0-2
Synopsis:
Protector
Agent Josh Slater has spent years working for the secret government-sponsored
agency known as OPAQUE. All the while hoping to find the man who paid his
father to bring down a plane killing the then head of OPAQUE. Now, Josh's new
assignment brings him back face-to-face with the one woman he ever deserted.
His life would have been easier letting Mackenzie continue to hate him for
leaving, but she's been targeted as leverage and he'll do anything to insure
her survival. Even face her anguish over his family's shame.
Mackenzie
Baudin has been over Josh Slater for years, so the idea of her uncle sending
him to be her protector meant only a slight hiccup in her steel resolve
emotions. But her uncle's promise that within the next twenty-four hours she would
know the complete truth about her life hit her like the plane crash ten years
ago. The day her mother and father were killed.
Excerpt from SLATER’S LEVERAGE
"What's going on?" Josh
asked his boss.
"OPAQUE intercepted Coercion
Ten's Target List again last night. My name's still there. So's yours."
"Sounds about right."
Most every OPAQUE agent had their name on the enemy's list. If not, then Josh
figured you needed to work a little harder at pissing them off.
"They've added a new column.
Titled it—Leverage. There's nothing in that column next to yours. Next to mine
is one name." Drake speed dialed his phone again. "Mackenzie
Baudin."
Josh's chest tightened as if a
belt had been notched three sizes too small. Not only was Macki an ex-cop,
wealthy hotel owner and the boss's niece, she was also the only woman Josh had
never shook from his system. The idea she was a target in the underbelly game
of life and death slapped him upside the head like a brick.
The two men shared a glance, then
looked away. He'd controlled his breathing. Controlled his expression. But he'd
felt the flare of his nostrils. Coercion Ten had gone too far this time.
There'd already been too many deaths in Macki's family.
"Do you think it's
real?" Josh asked.
"All the signs point that
direction. I've been trying to reach Mackenzie all day." The corner of
Drake's right eye twitched. "All I get is her damn voice mail."
"She's probably just busy.
You know, running a high class hotel isn't all glamour and glitz." Hearing
the words come out of his own mouth didn't make Josh feel any better.
Drake shot him an evil-eye look.
"Don't give me that bull. You and I both know this is damn serious."
Josh had to agree. When someone
was targeted by Coercion Ten, every hour, every minute, every second counted.
He nodded.
"They'll
try to break me and OPAQUE by targeting her." Drake paused. "We can't
let that happen."
"You can count on me. What's
my assignment?"
His boss's expression blanked,
the look he always got when he was torn on which way to turn. Torn between
going with his gut or over thinking the situation. Josh knew the look. Not only
from Drake, but from himself as well.
Squaring his shoulders, Drake rose
to his feet. "Bottom line, I need you to go to Riverfalls, Illinois and
protect Mackenzie."
"No."
"Yes."
"Get this straight, old man.
There's no way in hell I'm going back to my hometown." For years Josh had
accepted every assignment. Every duty. Every dirty job out there. All for
OPAQUE. All to pay back the debt he felt he owed. But the old man had stepped
over the line this time. "You don't know what you're asking me to do,
sir."
About Claudia Shelton
Award-winning author Claudia Shelton could write her
name before the first day of school, but now she writes romantic suspense and
contemporary romance, all with sexy alpha heroes and women strong enough to
love them. She also presents workshops on everything from character development
to networking to the ins-and-outs of being a new author.
Claudia's debut novel, Risk of a Lifetime, released
to 5-star reviews, reached Amazon's Best Sellers Romance Series Top 100 and was
named one of eBooks Galore top reads for 2014. She is also a two-time Daphne Du
Maurier (Unpublished) finalist for excellence in mystery. Her new book,
Slater's Leverage, will be available November 2015.
Shelton is a member of Romance Writers of America (RWA), MORWA (Missouri
RWA), Sisters in Crime, St. Louis Writers Guild, Missouri Writers' Guild, and
Saturday Writers.
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