Code of Honor, an all-new fun and flirty romantic standalone in the Cipher Security series from April White, is available now in Kindle Unlimited!

A painting, a panic room, a thief, and her lover … whose job is to catch her.

There are three things you need to know about Anna.

1) She’s a bounty hunter with adrenaline junkie habits,

2) She’s the “awkward” twin, and

3) She’s a thief – kind of.

Darius designs security systems for Cipher Security, and the strange and remarkable woman he met the night the painting was stolen is as intriguing a mystery as his hunt for the thief is.

But the lady has no filter, and she knows she can’t lie to the man who looks like a Disney Prince and kisses like fairytales are true, so she runs from the one person who may actually see her as the heroine of her own story.

‘Code of Honor’ is a full-length contemporary romantic suspense, can be read as a standalone and is book #2 in the Cipher Security series, Knitting in the City World, Penny Reid Book Universe.

Caroline's Review

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Top Read 2020

Fabulous, delightful read! Funny, quirky, sexy and so clever!

"The filter between my brain and my mouth had always been tenous at best, but it completely disappeared whenever sweaty butterflies got involved."

Anna Collins meets Darius Masoud (a dead ringer for a Disney prince) under false pretences. After a spewing of verbal awkwardness, she fully expects him to retreat but is quietly thrilled when he rolls with it and engages her in conversation. He makes her feel things that she's never felt before.

"Who was this woman who spoke in non sequiturs like they were an intelligible language, and was somehow both oddly innocently and utterly brazen."

Darius has never met such a remarkable and fascinating woman as Anna. He is utterly charmed by her intelligence, beauty, personality and impressive physical prowess. However, when evidence about a crime starts pointing in her direction, he battles with is own code of ethics and morality.

"The attraction is visceral...It sparks the air between you like electricity, but ungrounded, like a live wire."

Anna and Darius are opposites. She is outrageously unfiltered in her speech and thoughts, and her life is like one big adventure, although deep down she harbours a certain level of insecurity. He has a sense of responsibility embedded deep in his psyche. A man of serious thoughts and a moral code steeped in black and white. However, when he meets Anna, she turns him inside out and makes him question everything. Anna and Darius complemented each other so well - I loved their connection. Every word of this story was a delight and the plot was so clever! Anna is such a kickass, quirky heroine - she fits right into this universe of books. This story was funny and well-written, and I'm so looking forward to reading more from this author.

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Excerpt

She was waiting for me to run away.

The woman in front of me, with whom conversation was akin to playing barefoot hopscotch on hot asphalt, who walked like shoes confused her, and who smelled of a spring breeze through a field of wildflowers, expected me to turn tail and bolt.

I rarely did the expected, however, and often made choices that flew directly in the face of convention. And as nothing about this woman or this conversation was conventional, I stayed.

And I laughed.

This startled her, and she suddenly dropped to the floor in what seemed at first to be a defensive maneuver, but was actually a crouch in order to pet the cat. Her posture put her face at approximately groin height, and for the space of exactly one half-second, I considered remaining in place to see if she would notice. But chivalry got the better of me, and I knelt down beside her.

Her face flamed bright red, and for a moment I thought she was ill.

“I was just staring at your penis, wasn’t I?” she said in a tone of complete chagrin.

Rarely did I meet someone even more straightforward than myself, and I attempted a benign expression. “Were you?”

The delightful woman sighed. “I was. I’m sorry.” But then a mischievous glint came into her eyes, and she said in a perfectly benign tone, “So, what do you think about my pussy?”

I choked on a startled bark of laughter, and she allowed herself a small grin as she deliberately ran her hands through the fur of the very contented cat.

“On that note, I believe it’s time for me to find something red to drink to match the color of my face,” she said, as she rose to her feet. She wasn’t graceful about it, but she was strong and didn’t wobble until she tried to take a step. She’d managed to stand on the hem of the pink silk gown she wore and winced at the sound of her heel tearing the fabric.

“Well, now I’ve officially hit my humiliation quota for the night. Enjoy the party, Mr. Masoud,” she said brightly, as she hurried away across the room. I let her go without further comment, though my eyes tracked her as she plucked a glass of red wine from a passing tray and finished half of it in one large gulp.

About April White

April White has been a film producer, private investigator, bouncer, teacher and screenwriter. She has climbed in the Himalayas, survived a shipwreck, and lived on a gold mine in the Yukon. She and her husband share their home in Southern California with two extraordinary boys and a lifetime collection of books. Her first novel, Marking Time is the 2016 winner of the Library Journal Indie E-Book Award for YA Literature, and all five books in the Immortal Descendants series are on the Amazon Top 100 lists in Time Travel Romance and Historical Fantasy.