by Meli Raine
“Sister! I have a sister! I can’t believe this!”
I can’t either.
“Lindsay,” Monica says to the side of us. Her face is as pale as a gallon of cream. “Lindsay, I–”
“The rumors are true, then,” Marshall says with a sigh. As Lindsay’s sweet perfume fills my nose, her strong arms around my neck, I’m awkwardly suspended, half on my chair arm, half out on the table. Silas stays within inches of us, on guard.
I’m not sure if he’s worried about Lindsay, or Monica, or me.
Marshall clears his throat. “Lindsay? Could you please sit down? There’s more.”
“Sit down? You expect me to sit down when I just found out I have a sister? Are you crazy?”
Marshall gives Monica a look that chills me. I want to flee that look. I want to run away and never get into the crosshairs of that look.
Because that look?
Whatever comes out of Marshall’s mouth next is going to break the world.
“God, Mom!” Lindsay says as Drew tries to calm her down. “All these years, the rumors were true! You told me it was all just a ploy for Daddy’s enemies to get to him, and that Anya would never do that, and now we find out it’s true? Does Daddy know? Of course he knows. He was the one who slept with Anya! And Jane, we’re sisters! We need to–”
Monica slowly walks over to Lindsay and places two perfectly manicured fingers over her moving lips, eyes narrow and glistening with unfallen tears.
“Shh,” she says to her daughter, making Lindsay gulp in surprise.
“I love you, Lindsay,” she says fiercely, out of nowhere, making Drew, Silas, and Marshall form identical pained expressions.
My eyes jump to the manila folder in Marshall’s hands.
He takes in a shaky breath.
“Blood tests confirm that Jane is, in fact, Harry Bosworth’s daughter, Lindsay,” he says to her, kindly.
“I know! You just said that!” She gives him an impatient, emotional, giddy look.
Which deflates instantly the second he replies with:
“But you are not.”
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What happens next? A Shameless Little LIE is the next book in Meli Raine’s Shameless series. Coming March 27, 2018!
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I did it. I admit it.
I fell in love with Silas. My bodyguard. My protector.
My new informant.
We’re playing a cat-and-mouse game. I’m not sure whether I’m the cat or the mouse, but I can definitely tell I’m in a trap.
A trap with no way out.
I’m not who everyone thought I was. The truth is out there, finally turning the lie about me inside out. I am the shameless little lie. It’s finally been revealed, and now even more people want to kill me.
As a presidential campaign hangs in the balance, a delicate web of international relations and economic stability at risk, power becomes more important than anything else.
Even my life.
Especially my life. I’m a nothing. A no one. Just a tool, remember?
But tools can be used to open locks. Cracking open the truth and exposing it could change the balance of power. Tip the scales. Make a presidential campaign turn on a dime.
Too bad Silas doesn’t believe me when I tell the truth.
And that may make him the biggest tool of all.
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About the Author
USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine writes romantic suspense with hot bikers, intense undercover DEA agents, bad boys turned good, and Special Ops heroes -- and the women who love them.
Meli rode her first motorcycle when she was five years old, but she played in the ocean long before that. She lives in New England with her family.
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She also writes romantic comedy as Julia Kent, and is half of the co-authoring team for the Diana Seere paranormal shifter romance books.
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