Secret Agent Dad

Letter to ReaderTitle PageDedicationAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author“What’s Happening in Royal?”PrologueChapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourChapter FiveChapter SixChapter SevenChapter EightChapter NineChapter TenEpilogueTeaser chapterCopyright

This month, in SECRET AGENT DAD

by Metsy Hingle, meet Blake Hunt— debonair secret agent. Disguised as a father of twins, Blake was not prepared for Josie Walters—a beautiful country widow who wants to be a mother to those two precious babies!

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More heart-pounding excitement can be found in the next installment of the Desire miniseries TEXAS CATTLEMAN’S CLUB with Secret Agent Dad by Metsy Hingle. Undercover agent Blake Hunt loses his memory but gains adorable twin babies—and the heart of lovely widow Josie Walters!

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Secret Agent Dad

Metsy Hingle

www.millsandboon.co.uk

To the four talented authors with whom I’ve had the

privilege of sharing this series—Dixie Browning, Caroline Cross, Cindy Gerard and Peggy Moreland— and for the brave editor who directed us all: Karen Kosztolnyik

Special thanks and acknowledgment are given

to Metsy Hingle for her contribution to the Texas Cattleman’s Club series.

METSY HINGLE is an award-winning, bestselling author of romance who resides across the lake from her native New Orleans. Married for more than twenty years to her own hero, she is the busy mother of four children. She recently traded in her business suits and a fast-paced life in the hotel and public relations arena to pursue writing full-time. Metsy has a strong belief in the power of love and romance. She also believes in happy endings, which she continues to demonstrate with each new story she writes. She loves hearing from readers. Write to Metsy at P.O. Box 3224, Covington, LA 70433.

“What’s Happening in Royal?”

NEWS FLASH, November 1999—Who could have predicted that a storm the size of our Lone Star State would blow into these parts with such vengeance? Never has the town of Royal seen such theatrics as the thunder-‘n’-lightnin‘ show put on by good ole Mother Nature. Power lines knocked out...roads aplenty closed down. The Royal Diner is especially concerned about that lovely widow Josie Walters, who left the diner in her pickup the day of the storm on her way back to her farm—she’s quite a woman to be running things all on her own out there in the middle of nowhere!

Royal is also buzzing regarding the whereabouts of Blake Hunt, the man of mystery and dashing younger brother of hotshot attorney Gregory Hunt. Seems his older brother has been seen about town fraught with worry....

And rumors are flying about a possible “royal” sighting of the formidable Prince Ivan Striksy. Could our Texas Cattleman’s Club members be entertaining this princely visitor...or keeping him under wraps? Our sources will tell you soon!

Prologue

The blood in Blake Hunt’s veins chilled at the sound of a baby’s whimper coming from the backseat of his car. He’d learned a major lesson in the past forty-eight hours—bachelors and babies did not mix. Given a choice, he’d rather face a firing squad than the four-month-old twins strapped m the seats behind him.

“Why couldn’t I get a simple assignment—like disarming a band of terrorists?” Pressing one booted foot to the accelerator, he sent the sedan speeding down the dark Texas road, barely visible in the heavy rainstorm courtesy of La Niña.

Bone tired from the mission he’d undertaken on behalf of the Alpha Team and his brother Greg, Blake replayed the escape from the palace in his head. Even with his training as a former Cobra, getting the royal twins out of the tiny principality of Asterland where they had been held hostage had not been an easy task. But he’d done it. He’d rescued the motherless babies and thwarted Prince Ivan’s plans to use them in his plot to gain control of the kingdom of Oberland. And in less than two hours, weather permitting, his end of the mission would be completed. They would be in Royal, Texas, and he would gladly turn the pair over to their aunt.