CODE NAME: ADMIRAL
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He's an FBI agent who always plays by the rules. She's a hacker seeking revenge. Neither expected to find love while exposing a conspiracy that reached the highest levels of power.
PERSHING "ADMIRAL" KANE
When asked to help with the investigation into the murder of a colleague, I know I’ll have to recuse myself as mounting evidence is discovered that suggests my own cousin is the main suspect. Then, I meet Alice Gordon—brilliant, beautiful, and determined to avenge that colleague’s death, who I learn was her sister. As we uncover a web of corruption that reaches from organized crime to the highest levels of government, I find myself falling for the one woman who couldn’t be less “my type.” With enemies closing in and trust in short supply, we'll have to decide if the truth is worth dying for—and if love can bloom in the shadow of betrayal at the hands of those we believed we were closest to.
ALICE "CHESHIRE" GORDON
My sister's death was no accident. As a hacker who exposes corporate corruption, I know how to uncover secrets—but nothing prepared me for discovering Sarah's connection to the FBI and the dangerous game she was playing. Now, with help from Agent Pershing Kane, aka Admiral, I'm diving deeper into a conspiracy that threatens everything we hold dear. He's everything I never knew I needed—strong, protective, and willing to break the rules to find justice. But with corrupt agents gunning for us and a criminal empire that wants us silenced, our growing feelings could either be our greatest vulnerability or our salvation.
Prologue
Admiral
January 15
Long flaming-red hair with pale pink woven in streaked across the cemetery.
“Target is at one o’clock, Admiral, and we’ve got company.”
“Move out, move out, move out!” I shouted, racing toward the woman who was about to put herself between the man Tank had referred to as the target and “the company”—another man sent to take him out.
In less than five seconds, I’d place myself in the same crossfire Alice was headed into. It wouldn’t be the first time I’d take a bullet in order to save another’s life. This time was just more personal. More important. More imperative I get to her before the hail of bullets rained over both of us.
“Alice!” I roared when I was close enough to see her hand pull a gun from the multicolored patchwork bag strapped across her body.
I heard the first pop, followed by countless more as I tackled her to the ground, covering her with my body.
“Man down!” Tank shouted through the comms. I turned my head to see my cousin—Bobby Kane, or Cue Ball, as he was known in New York mafia circles—lying in the freshly fallen snow, blood seeping from his body in the same way colored, flavored water spread through Hawaiian ice.
Alice, the woman who lay beneath me, the one I was crushing with the weight of my body until I was certain she was safe, the one whose gun I’d knocked so far away from her hand that she couldn’t reach it, hadn’t been there to save Bobby. Just like the mafioso whose bullets had ended his life, her plan was to kill him.
“You fucking bastard!” Her words were muffled against the snow, but I heard them clearly. I also heard the sobs racking her body as I gently raised myself first, then her in my arms once Tank gave me the all clear. She tried to fight me off and pummel me with her fists, but I held them pinned to her sides.
“He’s in the wind,” Tank reported. I wasn’t surprised. A hired gun always had an exit strategy.
“Give me my fucking gun!” Alice shouted at me when Blackjack, another man on my team, retrieved it from where it lay in the same snow Bobby did.
“You want me to take her in?” Blackjack added.
“I’ll handle it.” No one knew the danger Alice had gotten herself into, not even the three men who’d been on surveillance with me today at the memorial service for Sarah Gordon, who wasn’t just the woman whose cremated remains were supposed to be inurned into the earth, but also the one whose death Bobby was responsible for.
Worse, though, she was Alice’s sister.
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