Sealed With A Kiss

Sealed With A Kiss
Kristin Hardy

John “Bax” Baxter is stunningly hot and the best private eye in the business. Joss, Gwen’s feisty sister, knows he’s her last chance to find the missing multimillion-dollar stamp.Bax wants nothing to do with the corrupt case. But could a saucy encounter with Joss change his mind?

Sealed with a Kiss

Kristin Hardy

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

To Ewa and Anna,

tack s? mycket for all the help

and to Stephen k?rlek

Dear Reader,

The stories I write are often influenced by my surroundings. When I found out I was going to go to Stockholm last autumn, I immediately began working on a way to bring that experience to my characters. I had great fun prowling Stockholm, searching out locations. Who knew they had a postal museum? And what a surprise to find in their collection a pair of post office Mauritius stamps, the very stamps featured in Her High-Stakes Playboy.

I hope you’ll drop me a line at Kristin@ kristinhardy.com and tell me how you liked reading a Blaze

novel with an international location. Sign up for my newsletter at www. kristinhardy.com for contests, recipes and updates on my recent and upcoming releases.

Have fun,

Kristin Hardy

Table of Contents

Cover (#u357e199a-d2b6-56fe-b1cd-f8b624786573)

Title Page (#ucb8e8af5-95d5-5557-8a02-3ae91116a7f9)

Dedication (#uca295192-325e-530b-ad2b-ba9e9dd24ede)

Prologue (#u8430c5f4-0c1c-5fb5-97f1-3df547409bd9)

Chapter One (#u3ff7f9cd-f358-5baa-a4c7-a46e65f487d7)

Chapter Two (#udcc0d195-7eb8-5bc4-864d-a9b82e38332c)

Chapter Three (#u998eca30-fd44-5ca4-a4b9-688f0c8332c6)

Chapter Four (#ua09fe9f6-83e3-58a8-a666-45dddd806f12)

Chapter Five (#u7ab3a1f7-7da7-5c7a-9a2a-6bed1fed4ce7)

Chapter Six (#ucfdb8446-cd80-5eb4-8d5c-c45cb33c04a8)

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)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue

San Francisco, July 2005

“WHAT DO YOU THINK of this one, Brandon, sweetie?” The woman looked at her towheaded young son, who sat like a spoiled prince in his tall chair. “It’s got an airplane.”

Maybe seven or eight, he thumped down his Game Boy and poked bad-temperedly at the stamps she showed him.

“Please don’t touch them with your fingers,” Joss Chastain said sharply. “They’re easily damaged.”

“Oh, Brandon doesn’t mean anything by it, do you, sweetie?”