When runaway Kip Faulkner was seventeen, he witnessed two men commit a murder. Fear kept him from telling Sheriff Long the truth about what he'd seen. Guilt made him turn his life around. Eleven years later, he's the owner of a reputable private investigation agency in Denver. John Rigby looks like a typical biker, tattoos and all. But Kip discovers he’s the antithesis of that stereotype when he hires John to work for his agency. When Kip learns about a recent killing exactly like the one he witnessed and recognizes one of the killers in a blurry photo on the news, he vows to find out how the two murders are connected ... and if there have been more. With John's help, can he learn the truth behind the murders while the two men fight their mutual attraction? Or will Kip become the next victim?

The Agency

At that point, Kip took a deep breath as he started the car. “This is going to work, isn’t it? I mean everything, not just the vest and the bug.”


“Yeah, it is,” John replied, squeezing his thigh. Kip put his hand over John’s while they drove down the main street, only removing it when he had to park in the lot behind the sheriff’s building.


“Good afternoon, Mr. Faulkner,” Mitch said when Kip entered his office a few moments later. “I was expecting you earlier, given the nature of your call.”


Kip knew why he’d said that. There was another man in the office who immediately stood, saying, “I’ll talk to you later, sheriff,” before leaving.


Chapter 30