When Agent Vaughnne MacMeans is assigned to a "baby sitting"
job by her boss, it means that she has to return to the one
city that she never wanted to see again; Orlando, Florida.
Too many painful memories remain there for her to stand it.
But she's not allowed to say no when her boss, Taylor Jones,
tells her there's a psychic boy living there that she needs
to keep an eye on. Moving in across the street from Gus and
his nephew Alex is supposed to be the easiest way to keep
tabs on the boy, but it's not going to be quite as easy as
Vaughnne had expected.
For one thing, Gus, the uncle, is dangerously hot and sexy.
He's also more protective of Alex than Vaughnne would have
believed if she hadn't seen it firsthand. As it turns out,
there's an excellent reason for his protectiveness. Alex is
packing some pretty high powered psychic heat that he has no
idea how to control and there are others that will kill to
get their hands on this kid. One of these people is the
biggest monster of them all; a man with lots of money, a
criminal lifestyle and the cruelest personality the world
ever saw.
Gus may be gorgeous and sexy but he's got a past that has
taught him to never trust anyone except himself. He wants
Vaughnne from the second he sees her but knows he will never
trust her even if he possesses her body. Vaughnne has never
known a man like Gus and she knows he's not good for her but
she can't stop herself from giving into feelings she had
thought were long vanished.
There's a very good chance they'll all end up dead but
that's even more reason to take from each other while they
can.
THE PROTECTED is a book that you can get lost in because
there's so much going on in it. You really have to pay
attention to keep up with all of the various characters and
the action that's taking place with them. However, that's
one of the reasons that this can be such a fast read. To say
it is an action packed book would be an understatement. THE
PROTECTED grabs you rather quickly and then doesn't let you
go until the very end. Even the downtime sections are still
filled with tension thick enough to cut with a knife.
Vaughnne MacMeans is a carefully constructed character who
is, by turn, tough, funny, determined and caring. Gus is a
totally new kind of rough who isn't going show his softer
side easily; that is if he even has one. Many characters in
THE PROTECTED aren't easy to like initially but most of them
do have that more likeable side to them that peeks through
periodically.
Shiloh Walker has hit another one out of the park and, I
promise you, at the end of THE PROTECTED, you're going to
want more!
Agent Vaughnne MacMeans would do anything to avoid
setting foot in Orlando again. But her new assignment,
keeping tabs on a psychic kid who may or may not be in
danger, is forcing her right back to the city where her
sister was murdered. And she didn't count on a startling
attraction to the boy's guardian?
AN ATTRACTION HE CAN'T DENY
Protecting Alex is a priority for Gus. Gus may not
understand the young man's "gift" but he knows that some
people would kill for it. When a beautiful stranger moves in
next door, his impulse is to take the kid and bolt. But Gus
has learned never to flee without a plan, and besides?she
doesn't exactly look like an assassin.
A GAME THEY'LL PLAY FOR KEEPS
But when some dangerous people from Gus's past do catch
up to him and Alex, it's too late to run. His new neighbor
is the last person he thought he could turn to, but Vaughnne
isn't just beautiful. She's fearless. And she's the only
chance Gus and Alex have left.
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