Kiss Me While I Sleep: A Novel (CIA Spies)
by By Howard, Linda
Category: Fiction , Thrillers , Suspense

If you sense someone’s watching you from afar, or if you feel a shadow other than   your own at your back, I might as well pack it up and call it a day. It’s a job   that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield   is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the   powerful and corrupt, those who can’t be touched by the law.  Now, after nineteen   years of service, Lily has been drawn into a dangerous game that hasn’t been sanctioned,   seeking vengeance for her own reasons. Each move bolder than the next, she is compromising   her superiors, drawing unwanted attention, and endangering her very life. Though   stress and shock have made her feel somewhat invincible and a little cocky, Lily   knows that she too can be taken out in an instant. And if it’s her time, so be it.   She intends to go down fighting. A CIA agent himself, Lucas Swain recognizes the   signs of trauma in the line of fire. His orders: either bring her in or bring her   down. Yet he too is drawn into the game with Lily Mansfield, dancing on a tightrope   as he tries to avoid a major international incident while still battling a tenacious   foe who is dogging their every step. Keeping laser focus on the task at hand while   vigilantly watching her back, Mansfield never sees the lethal peril that lies directly   in her path . . . and how loyalty has a price. Chock-full of the intrigue, breathless   action, and sensuality that have made Linda Howard the master of romantic suspense,   Kiss Me While I Sleep is a daring thriller of passion, sudden twists, and richly   imagined characters who live and breathe in readers’ hearts. It is the most gripping   and complex novel of Linda Howard’s career.