Shameless

I didn’t do it. I never betrayed my friend. Last year, I was kidnapped along with presidential candidate’s daughter Lindsay Bosworth, forced to help her assailants, my mother implicated in one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I’ve been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that doesn’t matter. Once you’re tried by the media, you’re guilty as sin. The truth doesn’t get the public’s attention. But shame? Shame sells.

Now I have my own personal security team, courtesy of the deep state. The shadow government. They’ve assigned Silas Gentian to be with me 24/7. He thinks he knows everything about me – all of it bad. Like everyone else, he assumes I’m a traitor. A backstabber. Someone who helped a group of violent psychopaths.

Yet I see how he looks at me. True desire can’t be faked. Or hidden. And that goes both ways.

I fell in love with Silas. My bodyguard. My protector. My new informant. We’re playing a cat-and-mouse game. I’m not sure whether I’m the cat or the mouse, but I can tell I’m in a trap – a trap with no way out. The truth is out there, finally turning the lie about me inside out. I am the shameless little lie. Now even more people want to kill me.

As a presidential campaign hangs in the balance, a delicate web of international relations at risk, power becomes more important than anything else. Even my life. Tools can be used to open locks, and cracking open the truth could change the balance of power. Too bad Silas doesn’t believe me when I tell the truth.

He needs to prove I’m innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Mirrors, smoke, and lies can conjure a truth that isn’t real. Money, bribes, and power can twist reality. What we call proof is all an elaborate magic act. So is love. He believes me. He loves me. But it might be too late – or worse, it might all be an illusion.

The Shameless series by USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine is a three-book romantic suspense trilogy set in the shadow of a presidential campaign. When Jane is accused of betraying her friend Lindsay Bosworth during a violent kidnapping, she’s assigned a bodyguard from the deep state who believes she’s guilty – until the attraction between them becomes undeniable.

Featuring political intrigue, shadow government conspiracies, and a heroine whose innocence may cost her everything, the series delivers pulse-pounding suspense layered with a forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance. As people around Jane turn up dead and evidence mounts against her, only Silas stands between her and forces that would silence her permanently. Readers who love political thrillers with complex heroines, unreliable narrators, and high-stakes games of deception will find themselves guessing until the final page.