Most Eligible Spy (HQ: Texas, #1)

by Dana Marton

Her protector proves he's much more than a cowboy spy in Dana Marton's first novel of her HQ: Texas series.
Moses Mann didn't need to be in an interrogation room to be intimidating. Molly Rogers found that out the hard way. Her brother had been accused of smuggling and murder, and now Moses considered her a suspect, as well. But what type of dirty little secrets did he expect to find in a single mother's life?
Moses was no ordinary agent poking around Texas border country. And he kept finding new reasons to bring his investigation to Molly's farm. Yet trusting himespecially around her soncame so easily. She finally had someone who would speak up for her. Even if he was an undercover agent with secrets buried deep in his soul."

• ISBN10: 148878485X
• ISBN13: 9781488784859
• Publish Date: 1 August 2014 (first published 1 January 2013)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Imprint: Mills & Boon Intrigue
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

This was included as part of a bundle with Glitter and Gunfire (Shadow Agents, #4) by Cynthia Eden. Here's the thing, I like a good bundle, especially when they're on sale - but the Mills and Boon ones are all so random so you end up having one book from one series, one book from another that has nothing to do with each other and it's not even the first book in the series. Or can be standalone. That's just annoying af.

So I bought this bundle for Glitter and Gunfire. And got this as a bonus. And it says it's the first book, but it really didn't read like it was. There were characters from a previous book. A mission/investigation from a previous book. And it didn't wrap up the investigation in this one either. And honestly I'm not really getting the spy reference either. They're not really spies. At least I didn't get that. They were basically just federal agents.

Anyway the plot seemed very focused on Molly's brother who was apparently in the last book and guilty of smuggling people and drugs across the border. When he was killed, Molly is the only remaining link and ends up with the cops and the bad guys after what she knows. Which is nothing.

I didn't really like either Molly or Moses that much. They were alright, kind of bland really. The romance between them was bland as well - they didn't really have any chemistry and they don't particularly get to know one another either. The rest of the characters are kind of nothing ones and I couldn't even name the rest of the team.

The mystery was fairly straightforwards; I guessed pretty early on who was the partner. It'd probably be more enjoyable if I'd read the rest of the series before this one. Based on this one alone though, 2 stars.