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The Quiet Operator
She spent twenty years making herself impossible to need ? until the one man who sees everything she hides refuses to look away.
Romantic Suspense Book: The Quiet Operator is a romantic suspense book by Lady Heartswell, written for readers searching for romantic suspense books with a clear emotional hook: She spent twenty years making herself impossible to need ? until the one man who sees everything she hides refuses to look away.
About the Book
She's spent twenty years making herself impossible to need — until the one man who sees everything she hides refuses to look away.
Klara Brandt has built her career on precision. As an EU Energy Policy Analyst, she controls every variable, anticipates every threat, and never — never — lets anyone see her falter. When a landmark summit is convened aboard a luxury superyacht off the Amalfi Coast, she's prepared for political warfare. She is not prepared for Colt Hargrove.
He's the maritime security contractor hired to keep the delegates alive. Former Marine Raider. Quiet. Watchful. The kind of man who catalogues every exit in a room and still somehow notices the way she presses one pale fingertip to her sternum when the pressure gets too high. He notices everything about her — and says nothing. Until he does.
When Klara's credibility comes under coordinated attack from a face she once trusted, the mission becomes personal for them both. Colt knows threat assessment. He knows cover, exposure, and the moment a perimeter breaks. What he doesn't know is how to want someone this much and still call himself a professional. Klara doesn't know how to let someone stand in front of her — because every time she has, she's paid for it.
Trapped at sea with danger closing in and six days of forced proximity between them, two people who've spent their lives not needing anyone are about to learn the most dangerous operation of all is letting someone in.
