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

Now what? Rory wondered. A change of plans, or has a problem come up we need to deal with?


Either way, he wasn’t certain he wanted to know. By the time he walked into Gideon’s suite, he was tense. When Gideon and Lou looked at him thoughtfully then glanced at each other, he was certain he wasn’t going to like what was going down.


“Lou had an idea about how we could pique Hanks’ interest in the gallery,” Gideon said, once Rory was seated.


“Do I want to know?” Rory asked warily.


“It involves you, so you have the final word on the situation,” Gideon replied. “Tell him what you were thinking, Lou.”


Lou nodded. “I talked with Clay Richardson last night. Among other things, he said he knows someone at the Post and that he could probably get her to do an article on the gallery’s opening.”


“So I had this idea. What if, as part of the article, we said my assistant was very knowledgeable about art because he was a reformed art forger?”


Chapter 15