Her Holiday Protector

Her Holiday Protector
Lenora Worth

THE WRONG TARGETWhile investigating a murder at Rikki Allen's house, detective Blain Kent realizes the victim looks a lot like Rikki. Could the secretive widow have been the target? He wants answers, but Rikki is unusually cagey. When the killer comes after Rikki at a safe location, Blain finally gets the truth out of her: she's the daughter of Franco Alvanetti—the notorious crime kingpin. A by-the-book former marine, Blain has made it his life mission to put the Alvanetti family out of business. Yet he has to trust Rikki to protect her from a killer who wants her dead by Christmas.Men of Millbrook Lake: Four men find love and family

THE WRONG TARGET

While investigating a murder at Rikki Allen’s house, detective Blain Kent realizes the victim looks a lot like Rikki. Could the secretive widow have been the target? He wants answers, but Rikki is unusually cagey. When the killer comes after Rikki at a safe location, Blain finally gets the truth out of her: she’s the daughter of Franco Alvanetti—the notorious crime kingpin. A by-the-book former marine, Blain has made it his life mission to put the Alvanetti family out of business. Yet he has to trust Rikki to protect her from a killer who wants her dead by Christmas.

Men of Millbrook Lake: Four men find love and family

Blain would find out everything about her.

But right now he wanted to get Rikki out of here. They were too exposed at this location.

She finally nodded. “I need to get my things.”

After he escorted her to her room, he put her in his car and turned to stare at her. “Where to, princess?”

She swallowed, dropped her head and stared at her hands in her lap. “The Bay Road.”

Bay Road? Blain whistled. Real estate out there was way over his pay scale. “Okay, then.”

Pricey estates out there. A scenic highway surrounding where the big bay met up with Millbrook River and the lake.

When they were under way and out past the city, he turned off and followed the dark water. “What’s the address?”

She finally looked over at him, a defiance in her voice. “2200 First Bay Lane.”

Blain blinked, thinking he hadn’t heard right. “Hey, that’s—”

“The Alvanetti estate,” she finished for him. “Sonia Alvanetti is my mother.”

“And…Franco Alvanetti is your father.”

“Yes.” She nodded and looked out the window.

And suddenly Blain understood so much more about what was going on with Rikki Allen. No wonder she’d been so closemouthed and evasive. No wonder he couldn’t trust her.

She was an Alvanetti.

LENORA WORTH writes award-winning romance and romantic suspense. Three of her books finaled in the ACFW Carol Awards, and her Love Inspired Suspense novel Body of Evidence became a New York Times bestseller. Her novella in Mistletoe Kisses made her a USA TODAY bestselling author. With sixty books published and millions in print, she goes on adventures with her retired husband, Don, and enjoys reading, baking and shopping…especially shoe shopping.

Her Holiday

Protector

Lenora Worth

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

But let justice roll on like a river,

righteousness like a never-failing stream!

—Amos 5:24

To Winnie Griggs, Beth Cornelison and Renee Ryan

With gratitude for a wonderful retreat during a storm

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