Bo, a small town part-time police officer, gets talked into taking care of Morgan, an operative of her once step-brother's elite squad that was nearly killed.

Morgan was shot near his home, the location of which shouldn't have been known to anyone but his team and friends, which necessitated the need for a secret place for him to convalesce while his supervisor looked into the breach in their system.

Bo, who is working two jobs trying to put a dent on her debt after a couple of bad decisions, seems like the perfect solution to the problem, since no one could connect Morgan to her, while at the same time any strangers after him would be easy to spot in her small town.

Neither of them is exactly happy with their arrangement, but they're both determined to make it work, and after slowly getting to know one another, they become friends and eventually, lovers.

The bad guys were

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the couple of politicians that Morgan happened upon while he was fishing, that wanted to hide the fact that they were making an illegal deal with some Russians and did not want to take the chance that Morgan saw something incriminating. The team's hacker was also on their payroll, which kept them one step ahead of the investigation at all times, before Bo suggested to her step-brother to look into him as a suspect

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Interesting story that got somehow sidetracked by the dog, of all things, since I doubt there was even a scene where Tricks didn't make an appearance. It slowed the pace of the story quite a bit and while her antics were amusing at times, there's far too much time spent on her instead of the actual couple.

Update: There will be another book in the series, featuring GO-Teams, [b:The Woman Left Behind|34217540|The Woman Left Behind (GO-Team, #2)|Linda Howard|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1501535593s/34217540.jpg|55268427].