Can it still be considered a meet-cute if it leads to blackmail, espionage, and real-life spy games? Asking for a friend...

Hadley Lockhart knew there was something different about her new neighbor.

Cole Clayton was grumpy. Rudely sexy. Entirely uninterested in being neighborly.

He was also a retired CIA black-ops agent with a very particular set of skills.

Of course, she didn't find that out until her ex tried to kill her and Cole stepped in to, um, eliminate the problem. Which ended with both of them getting swept up by the CIA.

It was a whole thing.

See, the government wanted them to infiltrate a suburban neighborhood and uncover a foreign sleeper agent...while pretending to be a happily married couple.

Now Hadley's living in forced proximity with a traumatized, overprotective spy who has a firm rule when it comes to relationships. He doesn't do them. Which violates her one and only relationship rule.

She'll never fall in love first.

So, with all that in mind, they should easily be able to complete their dangerous mission and avoid espionage charges without giving in to their ridiculously hot mutual attraction, right?

Narrator: Folks, they could not...

Spies Need Love Too, book 4 in the Adorable Psychos series, can be read as a standalone.