A Bloody Good Secret: Secret McQueen, Book 2 (30 page)

“Look, Ms. Ricardi, I don’t want to find your body floating in the Bay.”

“Don’t worry. You won’t find my body.” She’d seen vampires die. She wouldn’t exactly make a mark, not even a stain on the carpet.

He must have assumed she referred to mafia body disposal because he nodded as if he understood what she meant. “All right, have it your way. But we came here to offer you a deal. Work with us. We can protect you.”

“You’ve got to be kidding.”

“Not at all. Your line of work, everybody ends up dead or strung out on eighty-year RICO charges. Think about it.”

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act had flayed the crime syndicates alive. A RICO charge was far from an idle threat, and certainly wasn’t something to fuck around with. But flipping?
That
was a fucking insult.

“You’ve mistaken me for somebody else. Do some research. Women don’t play in the bad-boy league.”

Agent Toller’s eyebrows lifted, but he barreled on as if she hadn’t spoken. “We’ve even had bosses work with us to avoid dying in prison. Doing hard time isn’t romantic. A beautiful woman like you would be a hot commodity on the inside.”

She didn’t answer.

“We want to help you.”

“I don’t think so.”

“Here’s my card.” Agent Toller held out a business card. She glanced at it but didn’t take it, and he set it down near her wineglass.

“I don’t suppose you guys are going to pick up the tab?” She fluttered her eyelashes. Now it was their turn not to answer. She smirked, reached in her purse—a risky move with the cash envelopes inside—pulled out a hundred from her wallet and tossed it on the table. She stood to go.

“You’ll be seeing us around,” Agent Jacobsen said.

“Don’t count on it.”

She walked away, feeling their eyes on her back. John Passerini had been right. The noose was drawing tighter.

So the question remained: what was she going to do about it?

A Bloody Good Secret

Sierra Dean

You can’t keep a good Secret for long.

Secret McQueen, Book 2

After cheating death twice in one night, confessing her true nature to her werewolf soul mates and being asked to kill one of her closest friends, Secret took a much-needed vacation. By running away.

Now she’s back in town—dragged kicking and screaming—determined to clear Holden Chancery’s name. Right after she finds out what he’s accused of. It shouldn’t be hard—Holden has a habit of using their new and scintillating psychic bond to break into her thoughts and dreams at some very, shall we say,
awkward
moments.

Just a few things stand in her way: a secretive Tribunal leader, a group of would-be vampire slayers and two werewolf boyfriends who refuse to let her operate in her customary lone-wolf style. Even less amusing are the terrifying creatures that someone is using in an attempt to gain control of the council. Even for this out-of-the-ordinary bounty hunter, it’s a challenge with potentially deadly teeth.

Warning: Contains an ever-plucky heroine with no shortage of weapons, super-hot mind games, an ever-complicated love triangle and one hell of a creepy amusement park.

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A Bloody Good Secret

Copyright © 2011 by Sierra Dean

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