yet, I’ll quickly bring you up to speed.
Lawman Logan Payne left his job as a detective at the River City Police Department to start his own security business. His twin, Parker Payne, left his job as a vice cop to join Logan, and when he returned from the marines, their younger brother, Cooper, joined them. Cooper and Parker recently started their own branches of the agency. Cooper’s team consists of all former marines, as well as their sister, Nikki Payne. Parker’s team consists of all former vice cops, which is why Parker’s stepfather—the new River City PD police chief—hired Parker’s team to make sure a drug lord, Luther Mills, goes to trial. Mills has threatened everyone associated with his upcoming trial.
Parker hopes his team’s first big assignment doesn’t wind up being their last. Clint Quarters has the toughest bodyguard assignment: protecting the sole witness to a murder Luther personally carried out. The assignment is tough because not only is Luther determined to make sure Rosie Mendez doesn’t testify against him, but also Rosie blames Clint as much as she does Luther for her brother’s murder.
Hope you enjoy these new stories about the Payne Protection Agency as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them.
Happy reading!
Lisa Childs
For my parents, Jack and Mary Lou Childs, who would have been married seventy years this month. Although Mom has been gone a few years now, I know their love is as strong as it ever was. Their love story continues to inspire me.
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Feeling like he’d been called to the principal’s office, Parker Payne settled nervously onto the chair in front of the desk of the new chief of the River City Police Department. The fact that Woodrow Lynch was also his new stepfather didn’t help his anxiety.
Even though it had been some years since he’d been in school, Parker remembered all too well the feeling of being called to the principal’s office. The anxiety that gathered low in his stomach, twisting it into knots.
He’d spent a lot of time in this
