Agent Bride

Agent Bride
Beverly Long

Finding an amnesiac bride stranded in a blizzard wasn't how a Navy SEAL pictured his homecoming…Navy SEAL Cal Hollister is stunned when the white flag he sees flapping in a snowstorm turns out to be a veil attached to a beautiful woman. Unconscious and dressed only in a bridal gown, Cal calls her Stormy and carries her to safety. But it isn’t long before trouble finds the mysterious bride and trying to discover her identity puts a target on her back. Using every resource at his disposal, Cal uncovers a sinister plot involving terrorists, a forced marriage—and that who Stormy really is might get them both killed.

“We’ve got less than ten minutes. This time, I really do need you to hide. Will you do that? Please?”

“Tell me your plan first,” she said, not answering his question.

“I don’t have one,” he said. “Other than to get more information out of them than they get from me and to keep you safe. Everything besides that is fluid.”

She let out a loud breath.

“I can’t focus on them if in the back of my mind, I’m wondering what you’re doing,” he said.

“Fine,” she said. “I’ll be in the back of the closet, hidden behind the clothes.” She started to walk toward the bedroom.

“Stormy,” he said.

She stopped. “Yes.”

He put his hand on her shoulder, turned her and kissed her. All the emotion of the moment was packed into ten seconds of scorching pleasure.

Then he stepped back. “We’re not finished,” he said.

Agent Bride

Beverly Long

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

BEVERLY LONG enjoys the opportunity to write her own stories. She has both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in business and more than twenty years of experience as a human resources director. She considers her books to be a great success if they compel the reader to stay up way past their bedtime. Beverly loves to hear from readers. Visit www.beverlylong.com (http://www.beverlylong.com), or like her at facebook.com/beverlylong.romance (http://facebook.com/beverlylong.romance).

For Brynn and Eric, who both made the leap from college kid to adult look easy.

Hope you’re having fun in Missouri!

Contents

Cover (#u82a7ad7c-16b2-5aac-8444-45343715fab6)

Introduction (#ueaeab50d-108a-507b-a6a4-0b04c848ae0d)

Title Page (#u72a5c584-8fa4-5653-9c62-c11bb22245aa)

About the Author (#u6fb99868-26c4-5beb-972b-c986a6af22a8)

Dedication (#u3bc72183-da40-5919-b903-e9f85d977967)

Chapter One (#u177cd5b2-a9e8-5101-803d-91dd6ed61dac)

Chapter Two (#u4dc3eae3-ed30-503a-bd93-1c56be5ae2d3)

Chapter Three (#u52032a1e-ef34-507d-9a2f-6b3abe811740)

Chapter Four (#u920acd2c-0ae1-5a40-9d67-4eec5c4c28fa)

Chapter Five (#u7e5fa161-32db-52b5-8da2-829e08326e01)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Extract (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter One (#ulink_78735dc4-6942-5f00-a76f-23067433ca48)

Cal Hollister rarely let anything stop him. And that included the weather. But when the freezing rain in the upper plains had turned to snow, then more snow, making the I-70 corridor a real mess, even he’d had to admit it was time to take a break.

Now, an hour east of Kansas City, Missouri, he’d filled up both his gas tank and his belly. He sat back in the tattered booth of Dawson’s Diner and watched the television that was mounted in the corner of the truck stop. It was on mute and the words flashed across the screen. Early winter storm paralyzes Midwest.

Cal stopped reading, just as he’d turned off the radio in his rental car earlier. It was all they were talking about. The storm, the storm, the storm.

Missouri rarely got heavy snow and to get it in November was real news. He didn’t care. He wasn’t going to let a little ice and snow stop him.