When FBI agent Liis Lindy moves to San Diego, she’s hoping to start fresh, leave behind Chicago and a fiancé she didn’t quite love to focus on her career. Their story, however, is not smooth and easy, in fact, it starts of with the best of times and the worst of times. Two people whose pasts and presents collide in an unexpected way as they fall in love under intense circumstances. Jamie McGuire delivers a suspenseful, angsty Maddox-style story with the tale of two people more alike than not. In the second installment of the Maddox Brothers books, experience firsthand the mysterious world of the elusive Thomas Maddox, and how good love can be when you’re not the first, but the last. Posing as a couple, they must travel to Travis & Abby’s beach vow renewal and give him the news, but when the pretending ends, she finds herself wondering if they were pretending at all. Liis is stubborn, defiant, and yet somehow softens Thomas’s rough edges, making her the perfect agent to accompany him to the ceremony. In a deal that will spare his brother, Thomas has agreed to recruit Travis into the FBI. Travis’s only savior is his unusual tie to the mob. Younger brother Travis is faced with prison time for his involvement in a basement fire that killed dozens of college students, and the media want a conviction. Though, as many lives as he’s saved, there is one that is beyond his reach. He is tasked with putting away some of the world’s toughest criminals, and he is one of the best the Bureau has to offer. Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox is arrogant, unforgiving, and ruthless. She dreams of promotions and shaking hands with the director after cracking an impossible case.

Deciding she is married only to her job, she breaks off her engagement and transfers from Chicago to the field office in San Diego.

No-nonsense Liis Lindy is an agent of the FBI. If A Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever.

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Enjoyable and fast-paced-this is a deliciously fun,

Beautiful Redemption by Jamie McGuire