There are three rules to staying an assassin at the corporation of Covert Operatives: (1) your parents must be deceased, (2) your contracts must remain confidential, and (3) you must be under the age of eighteen.
After a murder mission goes awry a month before her eighteenth birthday, Covert Operatives assassin Jane Lu finds herself caught by the federal government and forced to spy for the CIA while remaining in Covert Operatives. Once her spying mission is over, she will be allowed to live a civilian life without facing criminal consequences—a life she’s only dreamed of having.
As Jane leaks information to the CIA, she uncovers secrets with enough power to both destroy Covert Operatives and her own boyfriend, Adrian King, who’s next in line to be CEO of the company. When her identity as a double agent for the CIA is discovered within Covert Operatives, she must decide where her allegiance, and her heart, truly lies.
About the Author:
Coffee-fueled college student by day, creative writer by night. Pema Donyo currently lives in Southern California, where any temperature less than 70
degrees is freezing and flip-flops never go out of season. While she may never be a member of Covert Operatives, for the moment she is pretty content
being a student at Claremont McKenna College. Find her chatting about coffee, college, and creative writing at pemadonyo.wordpress.com
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Excerpt:
CHAPTER ONE
There are three rules to staying an assassin at Covert Operatives: one, your parents must be deceased, two, your murder contracts must remain
confidential, and three, you must be under the age of eighteen.
I slammed the door shut while my eyes scanned the room for an object to use.
"I know you're in there. I know who sent you after me!"
"Oh yeah?" My gaze flickered from the empty baby bassinet to the picture books on the floor. I resisted the urge to groan. Of all the rooms in this
mansion, I picked the nursery?
"You can't kill me! The cops are coming." The voice on the other side of the door wavered even as I felt him trying to beat down the door on the
other side. "You're only a kid!"
ZING.
A bullet whizzed past my neck, breaking a small hole in the door. I cringed. A chunk of hair fell from the bullet’s impact, the right side of my
ponytail splayed on the floor. I'd just had a haircut!
"You are so paying for that." Enough was enough. I reloaded my gun and pushed back the door enough to buy a few more seconds of time. "No
one calls me a kid."
"Yeah, well I—"
BANG.
I gazed down at the man dead in front of me. One hand rested on the doorknob, the other on the trigger of my gun. I frowned at the wound. It wasn't
right on the heart. Darn, I wanted a clean shot.
The sound of scurrying boots up the stairs caught my attention. No time to worry about the aim now. My finger rested on the trigger, ready to shoot
in self-defense. I lifted up the gun and pointed it in front of me.
A woman reached the top of the stairs and shrieked when she saw the man on the floor. She screamed even louder when she saw my gun, as if her
screams would ward me away.
I sighed. "Sorry about this."
She started backing into a corner as I approached her. I dealt a powerful blow to one of the pressure points on her neck with just the right amount
of pressure not to kill her. Immediately, her body curled up and her lips pressed shut as she crumpled to the floor.
I pointed my gun to the direction I wanted to go. I passed by the woman, who was now laying on the floor, unconscious and blissful. I winced. I
hated when the family showed up. It made the entire mission messier. Still, a job was a job.
The chip in my ear started to buzz. I pressed on it with my free hand, still pointing the gun with my other hand on the way out. No one else was
inside, but a CO agent could never be too careful.
"Coast is clear." A pause. "You're getting slow, Janey."
I pressed the earpiece to respond. "Yeah? Says the one who almost got us killed in Cairo last week."
I kicked open the door. My eyes scanned from side to side, checking to make sure I was safe. My finger rested on the trigger.
Within moments, I found myself pressed to the floor.
Adrian smiled above me while his hands pinned mine behind my back. So not safe with a gun in my hand.
"See what I mean? Getting slow." His hands drifted to my hips, and his mouth curved upward into an easy smirk above my lips.
I pulled away, leaving both of us gasping for breath. "Not fair," I grumbled. "You told me it was clear."
He took his hands off my wrists and stepped back. I stood up from the porch of the house.
"We can't just make out during every mission."
Adrian raised an eyebrow at me. "You didn't object during the last one."
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