Defense Breach

When one of their own is targeted

the Secret Service Agents must protect her

Counting the days until she’s officially an agent, Secret Service trainee Skylar Austin is blindsided when she’s nearly killed during a training exercise at the White House. Veteran agent Grady Farrow recognizes a dead-serious threat when he sees one. Someone is gunning for the pretty young rookie. But if they want to get to Skylar, they’ll have to go through Grady first.

LISA PHILLIPS is a British-born, tea-drinking, guitar-playing wife and mom of two. She and her husband lead worship together at their local church. Lisa pens high-stakes stories of mayhem and disaster where you can find made-for-each-other love that always ends in a happily-ever-after. She understands that faith is a work in progress more exciting than any story she can dream up. You can find out more about her books at authorlisaphillips.com.

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Defense Breach

Lisa Phillips

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ISBN: 978-1-474-08600-4

DEFENSE BREACH

© 2018 Lisa Phillips

Published in Great Britain 2018

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“Where did he go?”

Grady shook his head, lifting up to sit. “I don’t know.”

Skylar sat up, as well. She scooted across the floor toward the driver’s side. As she moved she looked around for a toolbox. A knife. Even a sharp piece of metal would help her to break the ties that secured her hands and feet.

Before she could reach for the driver’s seat to climb in the front, the van started to move.

“What—”

“He’s pushing us.”

Skylar lifted up and looked in front of the vehicle. “There’s a drop-off, a boat ramp. It goes down to a river.” Her stomach bottomed out.

Grady’s gaze darkened. “Gravelly Point. He’s going to drown us in the river.”

She hadn’t wanted to say that and wasn’t all that glad Grady had voiced it out loud. Skylar had never considered the fact she might die like this.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,

is God in his holy habitation.

—Psalms 68:5

Thank you, as always, to my wonderful readers

for being so encouraging and inspiring. God bless you!

Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

About the Author

Booklist

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

Bible Verse

Dedication

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

TWENTY-ONE

EPILOGUE

Dear Reader

Extract

About the Publisher

ONE

Skylar Austin trailed along in a line of veterans and their families waiting for their VIP tour of the White House. As a former army corporal, she’d technically qualified for the tour. However, today she wasn’t dressed as herself. Some of the finest deception experts the FBI employed had disguised her as an eighty-two-year-old lady. They were so good she even had wrinkles.

“This way, ma’am.”

Skylar nodded to the Secret Service agent, considering whether to call him son. No, it was best to stay as quiet as possible. Otherwise she might give herself away. The success of her team—the “hostiles”—meant she had to stay in character. Not let on that she wasn’t who her ID said she was. Just the fact that the Secret Service hadn’t questioned her fake driver’s license said something about the quality of the fabrication.