Hidden Away

Garrett Kelly is a soldier who acts first and sorts out the details afterward. He works for Kelly Group International, a secretive, family-run outfit staffed by smart, battle-hardened ex-military operatives. KGI recovers kidnap and hostage victims, gathers intelligence, and takes on the kind of jobs the U.S. government can't be seen touching.

The assignment he lands is not the sort he was trained for. Sarah Daniels is hiding out after seeing her half-brother commit a murder, and Garrett is sent to watch over her at a beachside hideaway. He takes the job only because it might give him a shot at an enemy of KGI. Guarding a witness feels like babysitting to a man of his skills, and he figures the posting is a waste of his talents.

Sarah turns out to be far more than her file suggests. Garrett begins to think seduction might be a useful tactic, but a glimpse of the darkness in her past changes his mind, and what replaces the plan is a fierce need to protect her. Then Sarah vanishes, and he is left with a harder problem: he still doesn't know exactly who or what she is running from, only that she is running for her life.

Hidden Away is a fast-moving, steamy entry in Maya Banks's KGI series, built on a guarded hero, a woman with secrets, and danger that keeps closing in.