She wants in. He needs out.

 

A typically tough private investigator and professor of criminology, Harriet “Harry” Smith distracts herself from heartbreak by diving headlong into her latest surveillance job. On a steamy New York City night, she sets out on foot, cocksure and reckless, and lands face to face with a serious up-and-comer in the Trubetzkoy crime family whose eyelashes just might be worth killing for. But when the two meet again, Harry plunges undercover as wholesome schoolteacher, "Hattie," who turns the ruffian's head despite his ambition to climb the criminal ladder. 

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Harry's unconventional, clandestine scheme and forbidden attraction combust in a violent disaster. All she can do is work toward justice for her murdered police detective-dad. Along the way, she hopes to rescue the good bad guy too far down the wrong road to be saved. For Harry, doing the right thing is also the hardest thing, but crossing some lines isn’t in your DNA when you bleed blue. Devastated by heartache, goaded by ambition, and blinded by attraction, Harry's allegiances falter, and the differences between academic theory and real life prove that no one makes it out unchanged. Hell, some don't make it out at all.

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Readers who looking for suspense (and brief mild violence) like Harlan Coben's and humor like Janet Evanovich with their love stories won't want to put down this heartbreaker.

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