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Wanted: Bodyguard
He's hot, dangerously sexy and her husband for hire.
Special Agent Riley Kincaid was fearless when it came to hunting ruthless criminals. But he was clueless when it came to marriage. Even a pretend one. Now, faced with a gorgeous single mother who needed protection from the killer next door, Riley was forced to play the doting husband and loving father...then walk away when the danger had passed. Too bad nobody warned him that Lana Tyler and her little girl could stir up feelings Riley had firmly avoided all his life. Claiming the key to everyone's survival meant having razor-sharp focus on the mission, Riley did everything he could not to be alone with his temporary wife. Which was turning out to be his toughest assignment yet....
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 2010
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July 16, 2010
This story was rather similar in initial “twist” to Cindy Dees’ The Longest Night, taking quite a lot of enjoyment away. Still, the premise of a serial killer targeting women in their own home possibly living next door to the heroine, resulting in the FBI putting an agent in her home as pretend new husband had a lot of potential and it delivered quite nicely.
Again, I had a few problems with the heroine, but once the author shed light onto what happened in the past, her reactions were quite understandable. Also, it was nice seeing a small role-reversal between hero and heroine with him breeching the L subject first.
Again, I had a few problems with the heroine, but once the author shed light onto what happened in the past, her reactions were quite understandable. Also, it was nice seeing a small role-reversal between hero and heroine with him breeching the L subject first.
September 2, 2011
You just find out the FBI suspects your neighbor to be a serial killer. Do you really allow the FBI agent, however hunky, to move in and pretend to be your husband when you have a toddler daughter to worry about? And all within the first 10 pages?
April 17, 2025
I been making my way through this series so can read then unhaul but this one will be staying because I loved it more than any others in series.
Riley is recovering after being shot 3 months earlier so he gers assigned to be Lana's new husband. She had thought when the FBI showed up that were going tell her they caught her cop husband's killer from over year ago, instead she gets a fake husband who's going be in her guest room and her and her daughter Haley's life for while.
Neither of them thought they fall. Riley hadn't wanted anyone permit in his life after someone he'd loved had been murdered 18 years before. He closed off to the idea but Haley and Lana open his heart up.
I loved little Haley so much and how sue was calling Riley Daddy right away without being told to was adorable. There was the neighbor who is potential serial killer and them trying figure out who partner is amd the twist that came with that. Especially near end when Lana's attacked and another secret gets revealed.
Just loved it and glad read.
Riley is recovering after being shot 3 months earlier so he gers assigned to be Lana's new husband. She had thought when the FBI showed up that were going tell her they caught her cop husband's killer from over year ago, instead she gets a fake husband who's going be in her guest room and her and her daughter Haley's life for while.
Neither of them thought they fall. Riley hadn't wanted anyone permit in his life after someone he'd loved had been murdered 18 years before. He closed off to the idea but Haley and Lana open his heart up.
I loved little Haley so much and how sue was calling Riley Daddy right away without being told to was adorable. There was the neighbor who is potential serial killer and them trying figure out who partner is amd the twist that came with that. Especially near end when Lana's attacked and another secret gets revealed.
Just loved it and glad read.
October 11, 2018
Interesting reading, easy to read, will read more.
December 13, 2019
Light, quick read. Hunky agent whose mother died in a home invasion sent to spy on a serial killer living next door to a widow. He's to pose as her new husband. What happens?
June 21, 2023
written like a damn wattpad novel. sex scene was mediocre but did feature the woman being sexually proficient so great props for feminism and equality. also i hate children
September 18, 2013
Lana is a widow, her policeman husband having been killed two years ago. She lives alone with her young daughter, Haley, and makes a living designing jewelry, which she sells at jewelry shows and online. One day two agents come knocking on her door and announce that they need her help. They believe her next door neighbor is a serial killer, and they want to put an undercover agent in her home for clandestine surveillance so they can hopefully gather enough evidence to make an arrest. The undercover agent will pose as her new husband, with a flimsy cover story of having corresponded online for several months before meeting in person and getting married in Vegas. And they give Lana about thirty minutes notice before her fake husband moves in and sets up his camera equipment in her guest room.
Lana is likeable enough. She loves her daughter and someday she would like to marry again, but she is determined not to marry another man like her husband, who everyone revered but who had his flaws, which are revealed to us slowly over the course of the book. Riley is also likeable enough. He's something of a playboy, going from casual encounter to casual encounter, never getting emotionally involved with a woman. Lana is completely not his type, so of course he's surprised to realize he's attracted to her. His banter with Lana is often amusing, making me laugh at times even as I'm thinking what a sleaze he is.
My biggest issue was the child, Haley. She is constantly described as a toddler, but she does not talk or act like one, and I was often distracted by wondering how old she actually is. She's very precocious, but not amusingly so. From the minute Haley meets Riley she begins calling him Daddy, even after Lana reminds her he is not her daddy. When Lana and Riley share their first kiss, they are interrupted by Haley coming into the room:
“Mommy. Daddy. Stop kissing and talk to me.” (pg 79)
Riley tries to get Haley to call him by his first name, and she compromises by thereafter calling him “Daddy Riley”, which, gag.
Later Lana and Riley go to a weekend jewelry show, leaving Haley with one of Lana's friends, who has a daughter named Kim who we are told is five years old. When Lana says goodbye to Haley:
“Mommy, go,” Haley said as she squirmed to get free of Lana's embrace. “Me and Kim have stuff to do.” (pg 171)
Now, seriously, do any toddlers really talk like that? No, really, I'm seriously asking you. I haven't been around many toddlers since my own children were that age. Right now I only know one toddler personally, a little girl of about 2 1/2, and I can guarantee she does not talk like Haley. Maybe Haley is actually Kim's age, 5 or so? But then she wouldn't be a toddler, right? Aren't toddlers generally between, like, one and three? Anyway, Haley came off to me as a caricature of a cartoon child. The first time she approaches Riley and lifts her arms to be picked up, he shoots a panicked look at Lana, having had zero experience with children. But after that point he seems to be a seasoned pro at child rearing. I like romances with children involved in the story, but this child is strictly a plot device.
Lana is likeable enough. She loves her daughter and someday she would like to marry again, but she is determined not to marry another man like her husband, who everyone revered but who had his flaws, which are revealed to us slowly over the course of the book. Riley is also likeable enough. He's something of a playboy, going from casual encounter to casual encounter, never getting emotionally involved with a woman. Lana is completely not his type, so of course he's surprised to realize he's attracted to her. His banter with Lana is often amusing, making me laugh at times even as I'm thinking what a sleaze he is.
My biggest issue was the child, Haley. She is constantly described as a toddler, but she does not talk or act like one, and I was often distracted by wondering how old she actually is. She's very precocious, but not amusingly so. From the minute Haley meets Riley she begins calling him Daddy, even after Lana reminds her he is not her daddy. When Lana and Riley share their first kiss, they are interrupted by Haley coming into the room:
“Mommy. Daddy. Stop kissing and talk to me.” (pg 79)
Riley tries to get Haley to call him by his first name, and she compromises by thereafter calling him “Daddy Riley”, which, gag.
Later Lana and Riley go to a weekend jewelry show, leaving Haley with one of Lana's friends, who has a daughter named Kim who we are told is five years old. When Lana says goodbye to Haley:
“Mommy, go,” Haley said as she squirmed to get free of Lana's embrace. “Me and Kim have stuff to do.” (pg 171)
Now, seriously, do any toddlers really talk like that? No, really, I'm seriously asking you. I haven't been around many toddlers since my own children were that age. Right now I only know one toddler personally, a little girl of about 2 1/2, and I can guarantee she does not talk like Haley. Maybe Haley is actually Kim's age, 5 or so? But then she wouldn't be a toddler, right? Aren't toddlers generally between, like, one and three? Anyway, Haley came off to me as a caricature of a cartoon child. The first time she approaches Riley and lifts her arms to be picked up, he shoots a panicked look at Lana, having had zero experience with children. But after that point he seems to be a seasoned pro at child rearing. I like romances with children involved in the story, but this child is strictly a plot device.
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