Taking the
Bait
Arc
Operatives
Book One
Audrey
Noire
Genre: Romance Sci-Fi/Superhero
Date of Publication: May 6, 2016
ASIN: B01EMABWEQ
Number of pages: 43
Word Count: 12,817
Cover Artist: Avery Knott
Book Description:
Daria Griffin is a newly-minted
undercover operative with ARC, on a mission with her partner. Nicolai Novik an
augmented human with super-fast speed. Their first job? Infiltrate a conference
of billionaires as a newly-wed couple and dig up the dirt on shady business
dealings.
Daria's the bait, tasked with luring in
businessmen with her unhappy-trophy-wife routine while Nicolai talks shop. But
the operation goes all wrong when Nicolai starts acting strangely in the middle
of it. Will they be discovered by forces who may not have their best interests
at heart? And why is Nicolai acting so possessive of Daria when he never said
more than a few words to her during training?
Part one of a three-part romance story in
The ARC Operatives series!
Author's
Note: Taking the Bait is a 12,000-word novella. No cliffhanger, HFN ending. Due
to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers
under the age of 18. The first scene from it's sequel is included as a bonus at
the end of the book!
Excerpt:
“You want my first
mission to have me pretending to be what?!” Daria Griffin gripped the side of
her chair as she stared at her boss, and then looked back down at the dossier
open in front of her on the desk. She wrinkled up her nose and tried not to
make a noise of distress as she wondered if she was really ready for something
that required that level of acting skill. Daria had never been particularly
confident in her own appearance on a good day, let alone having to pretend to be
a trophy wife while undercover (although damn had she day-dreamed of being
swept off her feet by billionaire-du-jour when reading those frequent eligible
bachelor articles). She shot a look over at her future-partner.
Nicolai Novik’s
expression was deadpan, unreadable, and a little unnerving. He was eyeing up
his dossier, gaze flicking back and forth over the paper and profiles within
it. He ran a hand through his dirty-blond hair and sighed, long and low. At
least because English was his second language he wasn’t super-fast at reading
it, since he was super-fast at pretty much everything else (including getting
into the pants of the receptionists and assistants that were running all over
ARC’s offices, holy wow had he burnt through ladies like Daria’d gone through
funny-shaped erasers in elementary school).
There was nothing like a
team made up of a nearly-dead-half-recovered ARC operative and a nameless ARC
former-intern to do an undercover mission at a billionaire business convention,
right? At least, Daria hoped there would be nothing like them and they wouldn’t
fail and go down in a hail of bullets. Even over a year of training to be an
undercover operative hadn’t exactly boosted her self-confidence, especially
since in quite a few of her courses she’d only passed with middling grades.
She thought back to
before she’d begun down the path towards super-secret spy work. Her supervisors
had plucked her out of her internship in the labs as the ink was still drying
on her degree. She’d been hustled off (‘transferred’ was the official word for
it) from her tiny job paper-chasing after a kind but generally hapless
bio-engineering scientist named Dr. Robert Fowler, and put through a series of
rigorous tests designed to ‘assess her skills and talents’.
During the testing
process there’d been no coffee-fetching test, and definitely no pop-quiz on how
to scoop up great thrift-store finds. Daria had figured she’d failed miserably
and would have to do the workplace walk-of-shame back to her old boss down in
Lab #3b, continue her internship and hope for a good letter of recommendation
from him. Not that she would have minded… Robert had been the laid-back kinda
boss-guy, and she’d liked working with him even if the hours were kinda wonky.
To her great surprise
though she’d passed the tests she’d been given. When she’d looked down at her
acceptance and new employment contract with astonishment, Anastasia Rykov, the
operative administering the majority of the testing had just raised one
perfectly groomed eyebrow and said,
“What, you think ARC
picks fools for interns? You were groomed for this from the start.”
About the
Author:
Audrey Noire grew up in the pacific north
west, climbing trees and swimming in the sea. She spent her formative young
adult years travelling the globe alongside her musician husband as he toured
and played across Europe, North America, and parts of Asia.
They’ve settled down (sorta kinda) with a
bundle of cats in a sea-side town. When she’s not on the road watching her
rocker husband from side-stage, she’s writing about handsome gents and lovely
ladies falling for one another.
She believes that every day is ripe with
possibilities, and that life is precious. Don’t waste a second – fall in love
with your life all over again!
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