Book: Protecting You
Author: Robin Patchen
Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense
Release date: February 4, 2025
In a high-stakes game of deception, two rivals must work together to bring down a ruthless terrorist.
After Alyssa’s dream of working in US intelligence is thwarted, she leaves her mundane profession to pursue a career as a cyber investigator. Though she aces every case she gets, securing enough customers to pay her rent proves challenging. When a lucrative commission comes along, she thinks she’s hit the jackpot. But this client isn’t the British entrepreneur he claims to be. And then her old nemesis interrupts their meeting with a startling move.
NSA agent Gideon Todd is floundering in his new role as a single father to a surprise daughter, but he still has a job to do. He follows a tip about a terrorist, only to be shocked when he finds his old college adversary dining with the notorious killer. Maybe there was a better way to step in than by posing as Alyssa’s fiancé, but it was the best excuse he could come up with to insert himself into their meeting.
Gideon once stole the job Alyssa coveted, and now the last thing she wants is his help. But when he explains who her client really is, she realizes she’s in way over her head. Dariush Ghazi knew exactly what he was doing when he targeted her. She’s trapped. She must go along with a dangerous scheme, pretending to help him while working with Gideon…or end up dead.
In their quest to dismantle Dariush’s network of evil, Gideon and Alyssa risk sacrificing each other—and everything they hold dear.
Prepare to dive into this gripping tale of enemies turned allies, a fake engagement, and a deadly conspiracy.
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Christian Romantic Suspense is a wonderful genre. Protecting You by Robin Patchen is Book 5 in The Wright Heroes of Maine. I have been enjoying this series and have been anxiously awaiting this book!
I was immediately hooked on the storyline for this book from the very first chapter. This is Alyssa's story, she is the cousin of the Wright brothers. Alyssa's dream job, working with the US Intelligence Agency, did not come to be. She was frustrated for a long while, but she knows she needs to move on and becomes a Cyber Investigator. Alyssa takes on a client who she discovers is quite dangerous. A long time friend and former Crush, Callan, interrupts the meeting and is now Caleb Thompson, her pretend fiancé. The begin to work together but realize this client is extremely dangerous and their lives and their families lives are at risk. I really LOVE how they did so much to protect everyone, yet are determined to solve the mystery of this client. I also LOVE how their relationship grows throughout the book. Callan finding out he has an 8yr old daughter is reason enough to make sure everyone is kept protected. The adventure and suspense started immediately and there were many unexpected twists and turns in the storyline. I HIGHLY recommend this book to ANYONE who loves Christian Romance Suspense Novels. AMAZING BOOK!
Robin Patchen is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of Christian romantic suspense. She grew up in a small town in New Hampshire, the setting of her Coventry Saga books, and then headed to Boston to earn a journalism degree. Working in marketing, she discovered how much she loathed the nine-to-five ball and chain. After relocating to the Southwest, she started writing her first novel while homeschooling her three children. The novel was dreadful, but her passion for storytelling didn’t wane. Thankfully, as her children grew, so did her writing ability. Now that her kids are adults, she has more time to play with the lives of fictional heroes and heroines, wreaking havoc and working magic to give her characters happy endings. When she’s not writing, she’s editing or reading, proving that most of her life revolves around the twenty-six letters of the alphabet.
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Picture this:
You’re a cyber investigator, sitting across from a client in a Boston restaurant. It’s the first time you’ve ever met the man in person, but you’ve worked for him before. In person, he isn’t like you’d imagined he would be.
His arrogance doesn’t impress you, and he’s giving off a slightly creepy vibe, but he’s polite enough when he hires you to locate somebody for him.
It should be a simple job, right up your alley. He hands over a check, and you glance at the number. All those zeroes. This one job will keep your new business out of the red for months.
You slide the check into your purse and shake your client’s hand, still reveling in the knowledge that your business isn’t going under, not this month.
And then you hear a call from across the room. “Darling!”
You know the endearment can’t be directed at you. You’re nobody’s darling.
Still, you glance toward the too-loud patron and realize it’s Gideon, your fiercest rival.
You haven’t seen him in years, and even back when you were in college together, you’d barely been more than acquaintances.
When he was offered the CIA job you coveted, your thoughts turned altogether uncharitable toward the man who’d bested you one too many times.
Gideon must be mistaking you for someone else.
But he locks eyes with you. Wearing a wide smile, he reaches your table, leans close, and presses his lips to yours.
The kiss lights a fire that warms you to your toes. You ignore the reaction, though it takes considerable effort.
What in the world is he doing?
His whisper is so low that you barely hear him. “Trust me. Go with it.”
Trust him?
How are you supposed to trust him when you have no idea what he’s doing? Or why?
Before you can come up with a suitable response—and really, what are you supposed to say?—he stands and thrusts out his hand to your client, introducing himself as…
Your fiancé.
And then things really get interesting.
This is the scene that presented itself to me before I knew anything about Protecting You. After I wrote the first chapter, and with the help of wonderful brainstorming partners, I fleshed out the idea, turning it into a full-length novel.
This story features a single father who’s trying to figure out how to fill that role, a beautiful cyber-investigator, and a familiar enemy working to exploit the heroine and her entire family.
I’m so excited about this one. I can’t wait to hear what you think.
(And don’t worry. It’s not written in second person. Wouldn’t that be annoying for 300 pages?)
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To celebrate her tour, Robin is giving away the grand prize of a $100 Amazon gift card AND a box of goodies including a print copy of Running to You, a Welcome to Nutfield coffee mug, and a few surprise goodies!!
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Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Protecting You by Robin Patchen
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