Harper Allen - Woman Most Wanted

“I know it sounds weird, Matt, but it’s a vast conspiracy aimed at making me look crazy.

“They were trying to make it look like Jenna Moon never existed,” she finished in a rush of excitement.

“It sounds too incredible to be true,” he said slowly, taking her hands in his. “And that might have been just what they were counting on—whoever ‘they’ are.”

He had a nice voice, she thought inconsequentially. It was such a sexy contrast to his tough exterior that it ignited a string of wildly imaginative paradoxes in her mind, like a chain of Chinese firecrackers exploding—controlled but unleashed….

His thumb began idly stroking the inside of her palm. This time she was quite willing to accept that she was going a little crazy as the world around them seemed to recede into nothingness.

And Jenna was suddenly certain she would never be the same person she’d been half an hour ago.

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Our new ON THE EDGE program explores situations where fear and passion collide. In Woman Most Wanted (#599) by Harper Allen, FBI Agent Matt D’Angelo has a hard time believing Jenna Moon’s story. But under his twenty-four-hour-a-day protection, Matt can’t deny the attraction between them—or the fact that she is truly in danger. But now that he knows the truth, would anyone believe him?

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Woman Most Wanted

Harper Allen

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Harper Allen lives in the country in the middle of a hundred acres of maple trees with her husband, Wayne, six cats, four dogs—and a very nervous cockatiel at the bottom of the food chain. For excitement, she and Wayne drive to the nearest village and buy jumbo bags of pet food. She believes in love at first sight because it happened to her.

Books by Harper Allen

HARLEQUIN INTRIGUE

468—THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY

547—TWICE TEMPTED

599—WOMAN MOST WANTED

Jenna Moon—Gorgeous but flaky, she’s convinced that her identity has been stolen from her.

Matt D’Angelo—Gorgeous but stuffy, he’s convinced he can kiss his career as an FBI agent goodbye once he starts believing Jenna’s zany story.

Zappa—Cross-eyed and a little overweight, he’s the Siamese cat that Jenna insists was stolen from her.

Franklin Moon—Jenna’s late father, he spent his whole life running from the imaginary enemies he thought were out to get him. Like father, like daughter?

Sara Moon—Jenna’s mother, she died when Jenna was just a child—but somehow she’s never really left the daughter she loved so much.

Carmela Tucci—Matt’s sister, she’s a world-renowned physics lecturer. She sees her brother as a hopelessly immovable object who may have met his match in the irresistible force of Jenna.

Mrs. Janeway—The sweet, elderly lady whom Jenna nearly brains with a can of cat food. She uses a walker to get around—but Jenna’s pretty sure she’s a lot sprier than she lets on.

Edna Terwilliger—The vinegary dragon of the law firm where Jenna worked, she says she’s never seen Jenna before in her life.

Charles Parks—The senior partner at the law firm, he may have been involved in some shady deals. Then again, Jenna may be completely offbase about the poor man.

Rupert Carling—The missing tycoon whom Jenna insists she saw skulking around the law firm’s basement—which has got to be another one of her delusions.

With all my love to Joan Mary Foley Hill—

the original adventurous redhead.

You have no idea how much you mean to me.

And a Special Mention To: The real Zappa,

aka Walker Percy Cat, Siamese extraordinaire.

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Epilogue

The lady was late. Real late.

Somehow Matt D’Angelo wasn’t surprised. On the phone she hadn’t sounded like the type who would wear anything as practical as a watch, he thought in resignation, glancing at his own. He leaned back against the headrest, his gaze flicking warily to the rearview mirror of the Taurus. Then again, he admitted, she hadn’t sounded like the type who would choose a borderline neighborhood of graffiti-sprayed businesses and grim little apartments like this one to live in either. Her voice had evoked completely different images in his mind.

He’d give her another half an hour. Another hour, tops.

He was acutely aware of the fact that he could still just make Fenway Park for the start of the first inning, but even as he tapped the ticket on the rim of the steering wheel, he knew he wasn’t really considering skipping out. Like any red-blooded Boston male, he took his baseball seriously, but he took his job even more seriously. If she showed, he’d be waiting for her.

Sighing, he tossed the ticket on the dash and opened the car door. As he stepped from the government-issue sedan to stretch his legs, his attention was caught by the slim figure heading in his direction, still half a block away.

He’d never seen her before in his life, but as crazy as it seemed, that didn’t matter. Without even thinking about it, he was certain it was her.

So what the hell did she want with him?

Unconsciously raking a renegade strand of thick black hair off his forehead, Matt leaned against the side of the car and narrowed his eyes against the June sun to watch her approach.