Operation Paris Blog Tour
August 18-22, 2014
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Title: Operation Paris
Series: Super Agents (#2)
Authors: Misty Evans
Release
Date: August 4, 2014
(original release date of March 2009 as I’d
Rather Be In Paris)
Genre: Romantic Suspense
CIA operative Zara Morgan—codename Tango—has
a reputation in Conrad Flynn’s secret army as a renegade. Once held at gunpoint
by terrorist Alexandrov Dmitri, she was seconds from saving herself and
arresting Dmitri when Lt. Commander Lawson Vaughn, the sexy leader of a covert
ops team, intervened. She’s never lived down the fact that everyone—including
her boss—believes Lawson is her knight in shining armor.
Former Navy man Lawson Vaughn doesn’t
consider himself anyone’s savior. He lives and breathes protocol and hates the
fact that his latest assignment is to babysit Zara while she hunts down Dmitri
and stops the terrorist from releasing a biological weapon on the world.
But from the time they touch down in Paris,
Lawson can’t resist Zara’s sassy attitude and dauntless bravery in the face of
danger. When Dmitri kidnaps Zara and injects her with the contagious and deadly
virus, Lawson is once again forced to come to her rescue, whether she likes it
or not.
With unflinching determination and steadfast
courage, Lawson must break all the rules to save Zara, even if it means
becoming the one thing he can’t stand…a renegade.
“What are you so pissed about?”
“I’m not pissed!” As Zara’s voice
rang inside the car, she forced herself to take a deep breath and calm down.
“I’m just having a really, really
bad night.”
Lawson got out of the car and
came over to her side. He opened the door and pulled her out of the seat,
putting his hands on her shoulders. “I’m not going to let anything happen to
you. I promise.”
She looked into his face, and
without warning, burst into tears.
Mortified at her lack of control,
she brushed Lawson’s hands off her shoulders and walked to the rear of the car.
The tears rolled down her cheeks, and she pressed the sleeve of the robe to her
face in an attempt to hide them.
“Hey.” He came up behind her and
rubbed her back. “It’s not that bad. I’ve been in a lot tighter situations than
this.”
She shrugged his hand off. “You
just killed two people and you think I’m overreacting?”
Lights from a passing car touched
his face. He guided her to the other side of the Audi and leaned her back
against the passenger-side door, planting his hands on either side of her.
“I didn’t say you were
overreacting.” He dropped his face close to hers. “Yvette was going to kill
you, plain and simple. I took care of her before she could do the job. At that
point, it became necessary to stop Giovanni as well. If I’d left him alive, he
could have followed us or reported back to Yvette’s friends and then we’d have
a classic Chinese goatfuck.”
His gaze traced over her face.
“Right now, we’ve dodged the police and whoever may follow up on Yvette’s
death. We need to get on the road again before we call any more attention to
ourselves, and I need to make contact with Langley.”
Zara wiped at her eyes again,
took a breath and regrouped. As she was driving, her brain had red-flagged a
couple things Yvette had said. “I think Yvette was tied in with the same group
Varina Scalfaro is running for the Mafia. She kept talking about her clients
and her business partner. I don’t think Yvette’s playing mistress for a handful
of rich men solely for her own gain. I think she was actually running a
prostitution ring in partnership with someone else, probably Varina.” She hated
herself for what she was about to say. “And in that case, I’m not sure what
Director Flynn has up his sleeve.”
In the deep shadows of the night,
Lawson nodded. “We just ran out of people we can trust, didn’t we?”
“What are we going to do?”
Lawson eased her to him. “Shhh.
Don’t cry.”
“I’m not crying, you moron.” She
smacked his chest and attempted to push him away at the same time. Although she
wasn’t sure why she was pushing him away. She felt better when he was close. “I
had dinner all planned out. We were going to go someplace nice, but not too
fancy, because I knew you wouldn’t like that, and…and… Damn it!”
Lawson smiled down at her. “So we
have to take a rain check on the dinner thing. The mission isn’t over yet.
We’ve still got time.”
“But I wanted to do it in Paris,
and now we’re fugitives on the run from there. We can’t go back. Not even for
dinner.”
He pushed a stray hair away from
her face and hooked it behind her ear. “When the mission is over, our names
will be cleared. We’ll have a proper dinner anywhere you want then, okay?”
She studied his expression in the
dark shadows of the night. “If I didn’t know better, I’d say you’re trying to
placate me. After the mission is over, we won’t be partners anymore.”
“That doesn’t mean we can’t have
dinner.”
Her pulse tripped over a couple
of beats. “You want to have dinner with me after the assignment is over?”
He lowered his face and leaned
his forehead on hers. “Jesus. I’ve spent the past twenty-four hours trying to
come up with an excuse to do just that.”
“We don’t even like each other.”
He brushed her lips with his in
response.
A jolt of electricity shot all
the way down to her toes. This could not be happening. “You are
bent, Lawson Vaughn,” she said, smacking his chest again.
“Then we make a good pair.”
This time, his lips were more
insistent against hers, demanding and possessive. Zara closed her eyes and
kissed him back. One of his hands went to the small of her back, and he drew
her in close to his body, pressing her against the car frame and sinking his
other hand into her hair.
He held her head as he parted her
lips with the tip of his tongue, and she let go of the last of her hesitation
and ahhed into his mouth. She ran her hands under his jacket, and the
solid muscles of his back tightened under her palms. Rising up on her toes, she
pulled their bodies even closer.
She wanted to forget about Yvette
and Giovanni. She wanted to forget about being on the run from the police and
whoever Yvette worked for. She wanted to forget she and Lawson were running out
of people to trust.
At that moment, in the darkness
of the French countryside, she wanted to forget all of it, to give up control
and forget about everything except the tough, sexy man holding her close.
USA Today bestselling
Author Misty Evans has
published over twenty novels and writes romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and
paranormal romance. As a writing coach, she helps other authors bring their
books – and their dreams of being published – to life.
The books in her Super Agent
series have won a CataNetwork Reviewers’ Choice Award, CAPA nominations, the
New England Reader’s Choice Bean Pot Award for Best Romantic Suspense in 2010
and the ACRA Heart of Excellence Reader’s Choice Award for Best Romantic
Suspense in 2011.
Her Witches Anonymous series was
dubbed a Fallen Angel Reviews Recommended Read. The Super Agent Series, Witches
Anonymous Series, and the Kali Sweet Series have been on multiple Amazon Kindle
bestsellers lists. Her culinary romantic mystery, THE SECRET INGREDIENT, and
the first book in her Deadly series, DEADLY PURSUIT, are both USA TODAY
bestsellers.
Misty likes her coffee black, her
conspiracy stories juicy, and her wicked characters dressed in couture. When
not reading or writing, she enjoys music, movies, and hanging out with her
husband, twin sons, and two spoiled puppies.
Misty is giving away one digital copy of
Operation Sheba, Book 1 in the Super
Agent Series at each blog stop.
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August
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