title: Covert Ops
author: Kar, Alla
description: Description
  Lilly Palmer is an agent working for the FBI. Not just any division either but the SSB. The Shape Shifter’s Bureau. When Lilly’s best friend Kole drags her out to a night club, she finds herself drawn to Bo Parker, a jarhead. Lilly despises Marine’s because she has had her fair share of them as partners and they are trigger happy, horny assholes that she can’t stand to be around. Regardless, she breaks her rule of one night stands and goes home with Bo, for a night to remember.
  When Lilly gets to her meeting the next morning she finds out that her new partner isn’t so new after all, Bo Parker, her one night stand, is standing there with a shit eating grin on his face. If it isn’t awkward enough, they are assigned a mission in South Africa when the U.S Vice President is kidnapped and have to go together. Their relationship heats up and they both want it, but Lilly seems to be the only one that wants to obey by the rules. No sexual relationships between partners.
  In South Africa, Bo and Lilly fight the urge to take one another and fight the bastards that want Lilly for a science experiment. Her ex partner, Patrick, has his hand deep in the Vice President’s kidnapping and wants her for her blood, to create shape shifters.
  Bo and Lilly will fight for each other in more ways than one, will they win the battle?
  Reader Alert!
  To My Readers:
  About the Author:
   I go by Alla Kar and I am from the Deep South. I love to write. I have two novels coming out with Black Opal books soon that are YA. I feel that every person has a story within himself or herself to tell or bring to life whether it is fiction or nonfiction. I work in the publishing world as an agent and I love the literary world and every aspect of it.
  Excerpt
  He rests his hand on my lower back and I try to ignore how it spreads heat throughout my entire body. We move into the center of the dance space. The bodies around me are zombie-like, swaying to the music and grinding against one another. Bo turns me around and pulls me back to his chest and snaps me out of my daze. His scent is raw, earthy, like sandalwood, and heavy on him. His arms go around my waist, and I feel his muscles hard against me. I sway my hips in the rhythm he provides. I feel his breath on my neck and I push away the heated feeling it gives me.
   “You’re a good dancer,” he whispers, and I shiver despite the heat. “You come out a lot?”
   I shake my head. “Never, actually. My friend Kole dragged me out here. I didn’t want to go. I’m always busy.”
   “FBI, huh?” He turns me around, wrapping his arm around my waist. I would object but I then notice the change in the music. It’s slow. Light. His breath smells of peppermint and makes me want to fall into it, despite the fact that he is a jarhead.
  I mentally roll my eyes and scowl at myself for allowing myself to dance with him, and now I am smelling him and his peppermint breath.
  “I understand if you can’t talk about it.”
   “Oh,” I shake my head, “well, yeah. I really can’t.”
   “Understandable.” Bo pulls me closer, and I’m awfully aware of how big his hands are on me. They’re calloused and large. I bite back the urge to want them on me, touching me more.
   Bo chuckles, it’s throaty, raw and sexy as hell. “You’re over-thinking something right now. What is it?”
   I want you? I think you’re sex,y and it’s against my rule. “Not thinking.”
   “You lie.”
   I smile. “I do.”
   He leans in and his mouth is near the tender skin below my ear. I feel his breath on my neck. “I think you lie about a lot of things, Lilly.”
   I make a sound in my throat that I didn’t know was possible. “Like what, Bo?” I ask just as low.
   “I think you are lying to yourself right now. I think you really want me. I think you find me attractive, and you don’t want to admit it to yourself because you don’t like Marines?” Bingo. You hit the nail on the head. “Tell me Ms. Lilly, what Marine broke your heart that makes you hate us so much?”
   I cringe and try to play i