A Harmless Little Ruse
The Harmless Series
Meli Raine
Release date: November
18, 2016
Genre: Romantic
Suspense, Political Thriller
She has no idea what she’s
doing. Loose cannons never hit their targets.
And they take out plenty of
collateral damage.
Four years ago Lindsay
experienced the unspeakable right before me, and I couldn’t stop them.
But that’s all changed now.
When her father, Senator
Bosworth, contacted me to ask — demand — that I protect her, it was a second
chance. A shot at redemption.
An opportunity to right an
unspeakable wrong.
Controlling Lindsay as she
seeks her revenge on the monsters who hurt her won’t be hard.
Containing my own
out-of-control feelings for Lindsay and keeping up this ruse of cold-blooded distance
will be.
Even harder than admitting
to her what really happened that night four years ago.
It turns out I don’t have
to, though.
Someone else did it for me.
And I’ll make sure they
regret it.
* * *
A Harmless Little Ruse is
the second in this political thriller/romantic suspense trilogy by USA Today
bestselling author Meli Raine. This series includes:
A Harmless Little Game (Now
available)
A Harmless Little Plan
(release date December 13, 2016)
I wake up to an empty bed.
It’s not
mine.
Lindsay’s
gone.
I can
feel a change in the air. I jump to my feet, instantly alert, blood pumping to
arms and legs that are battle-ready. Her bedroom room smells like lavender and
beeswax, mingled with the hot scent of sex. I swear her heat still lingers on
the sheets. The ceiling fan is still, the room crackling with silence.
I grab my
gun belt and --
What the
hell?
My weapon
is missing.
Gun’s
gone.
Lindsay’s
gone.
Oh, shit.
She
didn’t?
She
did.
“Gentian,”
I bark as I shove my earpiece in. “Where’s Lilac?” Lilac’s her code name.
“With
you,” he responds.
“Negative.”
Dead air.
“Gentian?”
“I don’t
know, sir. No one’s seen her. Last we knew, she was locked in her bedroom with
you.”
No trace
of irony. No hint of teasing. If he had even one whiff of either, he’d have his
ass handed to him.
And he
knows it.
“She’s
gone, Gentian. Find her.”
“Yes,
sir.”
The
instant flurry of activity in the house matches my organs. They rearrange themselves
inside me as I assess the situation, which is pretty fucking simple.
Lindsay
stole my gun and ran away.
Doesn’t
get much simpler than that.
Last
night was the first time in four damn years that I slept. Actual REM sleep. The
night those bastards tortured us was the first night of my new life.
A life
without sleep.
And last
night?
I slept
like someone who had finally come home.
“Jesus,”
I mutter to myself. “Great job, Drew. She totally snowed you.”
I have to
hand it to Lindsay. She fooled me. I believed her act the entire time. She managed
to outwit us all.
Damn
smart woman.
Damn
dangerous, too.
Meli Raine writes romantic
suspense with hot bikers, intense undercover DEA agents, bad boys turned good,
and Special Ops heroes — and the women who love them.
Meli rode her first
motorcycle when she was five years old, but she played in the ocean long before
that. She lives in New England with her family.
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