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Cole Bentler’s mission is to serve and protect...
A Bachelor Bodyguards romance
Former marine Cole Bentler’s new assignment: protect the recently widowed love of his life! Shawna Rolfe’s never been far from Cole’s thoughts, but now it’s up to him to ensure her safety—and guard her young daughter. A daughter whose eyes somehow look just like his... Once his secret daughter’s identity is exposed, can Cole forgive Shawna before the killer has them both trapped?
Ever since LISA CHILDS read her first romance novel (a Mills & Boon story, of course) at age eleven, all she wanted was to be a romance writer. With over forty novels published with Mills & Boon, Lisa is living her dream. She is an award-winning, bestselling romance author. Lisa loves to hear from readers, who can contact her on Facebook, through her website, lisachilds.com, or her snail-mail address, PO Box 139, Marne, MI 49435.
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Soldier Bodyguard
Lisa Childs
ISBN: 978-1-474-07942-6
SOLDIER BODYGUARD
© 2018 Lisa Childs
Published in Great Britain 2018
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“Are you okay?”
Shawna gave him a faint nod, as if she wasn’t quite certain herself.
He looked closer. As well as the bruising on her throat from the earlier attempt on her life, he noticed the cuts on her knees and hands. “You’re hurt,” he said.
She turned over her hands and glanced down at her dirty, bloodied palms. “I fell...”
He suppressed a shudder at how close the killer must have come to catching her, to killing her. Whoever the hell it was, he’d gotten too close—too many times. Despite himself, Cole offered the promise she’d sought earlier. “I will protect you,” he vowed.
She released a shaky little breath of relief, but then she stared up at him and asked, “Are you sure you want to?”
“It’s my job,” he reminded her. But she was a hell of a lot more than that to him. She was everything. She had always been...
Everything.
Thank you for picking up the latest installment, Soldier Bodyguard, in my Bachelor Bodyguards series! The Payne Protection Agency is at it again—using the family business to protect family. If you’ve read the previous books in the series and thought matriarch Penny Payne-Lynch was a meddling matchmaker, wait until you meet Cole Bentler’s grandfather Xavier Bentler. Grampa X has a couple of reasons for hiring the Payne Protection Agency. One is because he wants to bring his grandson Cole back home to his estranged family and to Cole’s high school sweetheart. The second is because someone can’t wait for the feisty eighty-six-year-old to die of natural causes.
I modeled Grampa X after my father, who introduces himself to everyone he meets as Grampa Jack. At ninety, he is even more independent and feistier than Xavier Bentler. His car engine never cools off because he goes from restaurant to restaurant meeting up with family and friends—mostly lady friends. Like Grampa X, he is independent and determined and also has a heart of gold. I hope you enjoy meeting Grampa X in the pages of Soldier Bodyguard and finding out if he can reunite his family, survive the attempts on his life and play matchmaker for Cole.
Happy reading!
Lisa Childs