Officer Lou Hernandez is surprised when he's asked to help Gideon Monahan catch an art forger. He's not too happy, however, when he meets the man he'll be working with. Lou thinks Rory Kinley is a supercilious pain in the ass. Rory, on the other hand, sees no reason why Lou has been brought into this. After all, he's just a cop, albeit one who is good at going undercover.<br><br>The art forger they're after -- Nate Hanks -- cons collectors, saying he has an undiscovered painting by a famous artist. He's killed one of his marks already to keep from being caught.<br><br>Lou and Rory will have to set aside their differences as they set up a sting to stop Hanks. When they do, they discover they may not be as incompatible as they thought. The question becomes, will their growing feelings survive what's to come -- or be destroyed in the process?

It Takes a Forger

The space was nice, Rory thought, but what had looked good in the few pictures the realty site’s webpage turned out to be much larger than he’d bargained for.


I’m going to kill Gideon for making me do this. No, I’ll kill Lou. If he hadn’t made the comment about my sitting on my hands…He sighed to himself. I have to stop letting him get to me. He’s just a cop, damn it, despite the fact he thinks he knows all there is to know about the kind of men Gideon and I go after. So he’s done some undercover work, according to Gideon. That doesn’t make him an expert.


Rory came back to the present, telling her the building really wouldn’t work for the gallery. “I know I said I wanted to look at it, but…”


She smiled. “No problem. If someone wanted the first or second place I showed them, I think I’d faint. The last one you asked to see is across the street.”


Chapter 8