num_pages: 309
description:  Shes got his back.Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is shes an Executive Protection Agent (aka bodyguard) and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged corgi-breeding stalker. Hes got her heart.Jack Stapletons a household namecaptured by paparazzi on beaches the world over famous for among other things rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back in the wake of a family tragedy he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. Theyve got a secret.When Jacks mom gets sick he comes home to the familys Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesnt want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannahagainst her will and her better judgmentfinds herself pretending to be Jacks girlfriend as a cover. Even though her ex like a jerk says no one will believe it. What could possibly go wrong???Hannah hardly believes it herself. But the more time she spends with Jack the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak. Because its easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own long-neglected heart? Thats the hardest thing shes ever done.
language: English
title: The Bodyguard
publisher: St. Martin's Press