Romantic Suspense, Romantic Thriller
Release Date: September 5, 2022
Publisher: Avoca Press Publishing
My code name is Jealousy, and I take the moral high road…most of the
time.
Righting wrongs where no justice exists.
In life. In death. And in love.
My sniper dot targets the red-hot Irishman as The One. He’s The One,
all right…the one that steals what no one else can…my
heart.
He lies.
He cheats.
He steals.
And so do I…we’re the perfect match.
But when jealousy is a weapon for an assassin faced with a life-or-death
choice,
Love doesn’t stand a chance.
Dive into an elite assassin organization that brings justice to the
world.
We are the Sisters of Sin: A new thriller romance novel series you’ll
die for.
Excerpt
Chapter 16 – Shayla Byrne
Code Name: Jealousy.
Bratislava, Slovakia.
When the wheels touch down in Vienna, I take a train to Bratislava under a
fake name. I want to view the countryside on the ground, since this is my
first foray to Eastern Europe. Trains relax me, unlike hurtling through the
air in a metal sausage tube that could fall out of the sky at any given
moment.
It gives me time to prepare for my first official assignment with the
Sisters of Sin and review a few Slovak phrases I’d practiced. I settle
into a comfortable seat in the dining car and place my dinner order.
Brushing back strands of my blunt-cut red wig, I resist the temptation to
scratch my itchy scalp. I hate wearing these wigs and miss my trusty black
knit cap I wore in Ireland.
Mother has made it clear I’m to do a better job of keeping up my
appearance, especially for situations like this job I’m on now.
I’m anxious about working more in the open; I miss the dark blanket of
night where appearance wasn’t the major concern in our family’s
operation back home.
My appearance wasn’t high on my priority list until Collin Stedman
swept me off my feet—and swept my virginity along with them. I wonder
what he’s doing right now. I miss how easy I am with him. He accepts
me as I am without bombarding me with questions about my past.
Unlike our family operation back home, Mother wants us to know who our
marks are and why we remove them. She had assigned Vanity to brief me about
this job before I left headquarters in Rome. Vanity’s specialty was
dealing with the traffickers. She’d explained that my target is a
powerhouse in the human trafficking industry that snatches young girls and
women from Eastern Europe and trafficks them to Western Europe.
I sit up in my seat and open my tablet to read the encrypted email from SOS
intel, then I scroll down to the photos section. The bald, middle-aged man
with an ever-so-charming smile and expensive suit emulates a successful CEO
on the cover of a business magazine.
How quaint.
I move my finger down to note the name of his front company: EuroComm. I
frown at the subheading. The leading edge of Europe’s 5G wireless
network.
Not true. Declan says China has now usurped that desirable
distinction.
My eyes narrow. It makes sense this guy would run his trafficking business
solely by digital means. Cousin Declan had explained how cybercrime
investigation bureaus had hacked into encrypted email between the man in
this photo and other ‘independent contractors’ to trace sources
and IP addresses. The bureaus had followed his pathway through dozens of
servers around the world.
But this sleaze runs a sophisticated network, staying ten steps ahead of
everyone.
Until now.
Apparently, someone had become fed up with Mr. Sleaze’s operation and
relayed his intel to one of the three remaining Conexus board members, Jeff
Lynsey. In the name of humanity, he’d directed Mother to assign this
trafficker as a prioritized hit.
Thanks to Cousin Declan—who taught me well—my affinity for
navigating the dark web, hacking into mobile phones and email has come in
handy. I’d traced the most recent online IP address to Bratislava, and
turned it over to Finn Rogers, Mother’s right-hand man. He and his
staff oversee all things technical, and they’d flushed out the details
of where and when the mark would be most accessible.
I’m not crazy about doing this hit in an up close and personal
proximity. As part of my apprenticeship, Mother is evaluating my ability to
execute close contact hits when situations require it.
My reasoning to accomplish this job from a sniper’s distance fell on
deaf ears. Mother wanted me out of my comfort zone to ‘become more
flexible.’ She didn’t realize what she was asking of someone
with an autistic obsessive-compulsive brain—I refuse to invoke the
word ‘disorder.’ I don’t have a disorder—I just
interpret information differently.
The Uncles call it my extra special gift.
Collin told me I’m not disordered. He made it sound I was more normal
than normal people. And all my life I’d thought of myself as
defective.
I let out a shaky breath, wishing this hit wasn’t my first SOS
assignment.
There is more than enough potential for me to mess this up.
About the Author
LoLo Paige is an award-winning author and former wildland firefighter,
whose debut novel, Alaska Spark, received three awards: An Indie B.R.A.G.
Medallion, an Eric Hoffer award, and a Next Generation Indie Book award for
romance. Alaska Spark and Alaska Inferno have ranked No.1 on the Amazon
Bestseller Lists for action adventure and romantic suspense in the U.S.,
Canada, and Australia. The true story about LoLo’s fire crew escaping
a runaway wildfire won an Alaska Press Club award and inspired her fire
series.
Back in 2021 LoLo was invited to collaborate with five other award-winning
and best-selling authors to write in the shared universe of the Sisters of
Sin series, and it has been a wild adventure ever since! It has been an
honor working with these five super talented authors to write
Jealousy.
LoLo also has other books under the romance umbrella. Hello Spain, Goodbye
Heart, and Irish Thunder, are two romantic comedies being published by The
Wild Rose Press. Sign up for LoLo’s email list to learn more about her
books.
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