Accidentally Yours

Heidi & Dana #0.5

by Rebecca Winters

FBI agent Max Calder is working undercover to bring down a Russian Mafia ring, which is running an elaborate scam staging accidents and bilking insurance companies. He's disguised as a Russian immigrant, Anatoly Kuzmina, and has successfully -- or so he hopes -- infiltrated the group.

Gaby Peris, an attractive widow, inadvertently ends up in the middle of one of these accidents. Is she an innocent victim or part of the scam? Does she know who he really is?

Max has to find out -- because he's starting to fall for her and fall hard.

Genres: Romance

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

aka Rebecca Brown Burton, Rebecca Burton

Rebecca Winters, born Rebecca Brown Burton, was the author of over 175 romance novels published with Harlequin, delighting readers worldwide for more than 35 years. Her stories, translated into many languages, have sold nearly thirty million copies. A French teacher turned novelist, she combined her love of language, family, and storytelling into a remarkable literary legacy.

Reviews

[Jen_C · Rating 4 out of 5]

FBI Agent Max Calder is working undercover to take down a Russian Mafia ring. The Russian Mafia is setting up car accidents and getting tons of money from insurance companies. Max has worked long and hard to get himself deep into the group as a Russian immigrant, Anatoly Kuzmina. The day that Max was supposed to have one of his `staged accidents' someone else hit his car unexpectedly. Max is afraid that maybe one of his rivals in the Mafia sent her to get rid of him permanently or that she was sent from someone higher up in the Mafia to test Max's loyalty. Either way Max knows he must find out everything that he can about the woman, Gaby Peris. Gaby was horrified to have caused the accident, but she is thankful that everyone seems okay. As an immigration lawyer Gaby has read up on the Russian Mafia ring and has a nagging suspicion that Anatoly might be involved. She is suspicious and highly attracted to him.

Max and Gaby are the perfect couple, but their suspicions of each other could tear them apart. Through the whole book the reader is hoping that they discover the truth about one another before it is too late.(less)

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting story. The hero is undercover with the FBI, investigating a car-crash insurance scam by the Russian mafia. When the heroine crashes into him, the hero fears she's come to assassinate him because his cover is blown, or because his "boss" is jealous. The heroine worries he's a crook. And yet there's this instant attraction. This is a very well done story. I loved the tension between the hero & heroine. I liked it a lot.

[Amber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gotta give props to the author. She made the misunderstandings between the couple completely believable, more than believable, reasonable. The ending was kind of abrupt for me, but the overall story was pretty good.