Geri Krotow - Secret Agent Under Fire

Desire blazes between a beautiful arson investigator and a fire chief in the latest Silver Valley P.D. romance!

At their first meeting, sparks fly—but not the good kind—between Abi Redland and Keith Paruso. As an arson specialist contracted by Silver Valley P.D. Abi needs to work closely with the smolderingly hot fire chief, but as an undercover agent for the top-secret Trail Hiker organization, she has to hide things from him. To her chagrin, she finds the charming firefighter is really getting under her skin.

For Keith, finding the culprit who’s setting the fires and has blackened his reputation means redemption. But as the attacks escalate and Abi becomes a target, danger turns up the heat on their romance...and on everyone they love.

Abi walked toward Keith, stopping a foot from him, and his heart felt like it would explode.

“Keith, you’re a great catch for Silver Valley, I’m sure. But we’re both professionals, and we both know the intensity this case is going to require. Hanky-panky isn’t on the docket.”

“Did you just say hanky-panky?”

“I did. And we’re adults. Let’s get it out in the open so that we can let it go.”

“Like hell.”

Abi didn’t resist as he grasped her upper arms and pulled her body up against his.

“I’m sure all the girls like this Neanderthal move. It’s quite slick, actually. Do you practice—”

Keith planted a firm kiss on her lips. No tongue, no seductive caresses. Just pure lip-lock.

Abi shoved against his chest. “Really? Is that all you’ve got?” As she challenged him she fought the warmth that blazed from her lips to her midsection.

“You’ve no idea, Abi,” he growled.

* * *

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Dear Reader,

Welcome back to Silver Valley, the small town in Central Pennsylvania that has more than its share of danger and bad guys waiting around every turn. Fortunately there’s love all around, too.

Secret Agent Under Fire is the fourth Silver Valley P.D. book. We finally get to see the True Believer aka New Thought cult get its due—after it has plagued Silver Valley for the past four books.

It was my honor and privilege to write about Keith Paruso, a firefighter who is fighting to keep his professional reputation intact after being slandered by cult members in Wedding Takedown. Abi Redland is a former FBI agent and arson expert hired by the secret government shadow agency the Trail Hikers to help solve a series of arsons in Silver Valley. Abi and Keith immediately butt heads, as they are both fire-science experts and have definite opinions on how to catch their criminal. I loved writing how they fall in love no matter how dangerous the setting. I had a hard time saying goodbye to Abi and Keith at the end of the book. I hope you’ll feel the same.

Thank you for your wonderful response to the Silver Valley P.D. series. It’s a joy to write, and of course I love to highlight the area I call “home.”

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Peace,

Geri

Secret Agent Under Fire

Geri Krotow

www.millsandboon.co.uk

Former naval intelligence officer and US Naval Academy graduate GERI KROTOW draws inspiration from the global situations she’s experienced. Geri loves to hear from her readers. You can email her via her website and blog, gerikrotow.com.

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Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

Introduction

Dear Reader

Title Page

About the Author

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Extract

Copyright

Chapter 1

Abigail Redland had never heard so many different birdcalls in her life. Hunched on the dirt floor of a long-ago abandoned play fort, she hard-swallowed a laugh. Imagine, she was having more fun in the deer-tick-infested woods of central Pennsylvania than she’d ever had in her office at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. Cramped muscles from the long night of surveillance included. She stretched her legs in front of her, careful to remain silent as her hamstrings protested with sharp spasms.

“You still there, Abi?” Rio Ortego’s voice sounded in her earpiece and broke through her mental distraction.

“Here. Nothing.”

“Roger.” Rio was all business, as usual. Not only was Rio the Silver Valley Police Department detective who ran their current op, he was also a fellow Trail Hiker secret agent. Abi still had to pinch herself that she’d landed her new job with the autonomous government shadow agency so quickly after she’d left the FBI.

Because of its secrecy, she’d never heard of Trail Hikers. The fact that it was headquartered only two hours north of DC and yet a world away in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, had intrigued her. As had the scope of their missions, international and domestic, outlined to her by the Trail Hiker CEO, Claudia Michele, a retired Marine Corps General. That had been almost three months ago, and Abi would be forever grateful to Claudia for finding her via the FBI’s database of departing employees. Abi figured she’d have to take a job that wouldn’t use her arson expertise as a cushion between the FBI and whatever came next. Being a Trail Hiker agent was a godsend, even if she still didn’t know what was going to come next. All she knew was that she didn’t want to be taking down bad guys for the rest of her life.

Abi used her binoculars to go over every visible part of the house across the woods for what had to be the hundredth time in two hours and she all but willed their target to appear. She was at most one hundred yards from the house but the binoculars were invaluable. At least she didn’t have to rely on the night-vision goggles any longer—the sun had been up for a good hour.

As if summoned by her thoughts, two ominous booms preceded a thin line of smoke wafting on the early morning breeze—her only warning before the sight of graceful flames registered as they licked up the side of the old, abandoned home.

“We’ve got heat. Flames. Heading in.” She dropped her binoculars and began to unfold herself from her hidden position on the ground.

“No, Abi, stay put. We’ve called the fire department in. Watch for the arsonist.”

“We’ll never catch him if you keep relying on the SVFD, boss.”

Rio didn’t respond and Abi didn’t expect any different. She didn’t have anything against the local fire department—Silver Valley Fire Department wanted the bastard as much as, if not more than, the Trail Hikers and Silver Valley PD combined. They’d all been tracking this loser for the better part of three months. He’d set building after building on fire, each time leaving a fireproof message in his wake, either outside near but far enough from the blaze, or, in many cases, in a fireproof lockbox. Always a warning for Silver Valley to “listen to God” and “revert to the old ways.”