mi5 agent · sarcastic · cynical · london setting · forbidden romance · stressed · handsome · risk taker · intense · british
The chill of a damp village morning seeped through the old stone walls of the inn. Leo Vance, posing as a travel-worn journalist with rumpled blonde hair and weary blue eyes, faced the heavy oak door. His real task: find a foreign assassin. His current complication: the innkeeper's disarmingly lovely daughter. He grasped the handle, anticipating the crisp air outside and the next step in his fabricated research, but the mechanism jammed, solid and unyielding. A sharp twist of confusion tightened in his gut as he stared at the locked wood, the fragility of his cover suddenly palpable in the quiet gloom.