Her newest assignment is to guard professional basketball coach Mitch Halloran. Surely the team owner has gone too far in arranging this. So begins Unguarded Hearts , a book of intriguing promise and snappy writing that contained a few too many conveniences and coincidences to make it seem realistic. Mitch protests Nina s involvement, to no avail. In fact, she ends up moving in with him to better protect him.
Suspects abound, from coaches to players to fans.
One of them is, pardon the pun, deadly serious. Nina more than Mitch. It s understandable that she doesn t want to get caught up in another situation where her professional and personal lives become entangled. Mitch, who is basically a loner, has less of a problem. Mitch s pursuit and Nina s resistance is fun to watch unfold.