Page 1 of Dirty Quinn
Prologue
This is the tale of four friends:
Two ex-FBI partners, Mack and Reed, in the midst of going rogue.
A bar owner by day/vigilante by night, Daria.
And her best friend, Quinn.
Daria Limonov, owner of Dirty Dar’s Bar and Grill, descendant of Lidya Limonov—the original femme fatale and famous Russian military sniper in WWII. And thanks to such lineage, Daria is a secret assassin of bad guys, along with the Dirty Darlings, her small crew of cold-hearted killers moonlighting as bartenders and cocktail waitresses.
Quinn Foster, Daria’s best friend, an under-employed goofball with questionable taste in men except for her incessant crush on Reed Roberts.
Reed Roberts, an FBI agent with a secret crush on Quinn that he won’t do anything about it because she used to date his best friend, David Tremblay.
Mack Murphy, Reed’s FBI partner and Daria’s ex. She broke it off when she found out he was a Fed. Mack, being the kick-ass agent that he is, already knew Daria was an assassin and was trying (unsuccessfully) not to care. But once she found out Mack knew; she became determined to save him from himself—and save his career—by distancing herself. Quinn and Mack both know Daria’s secret, Reed does not.
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And now a quick recap . . .
In book one,Dirty Ex-Mas, Mack and Reed stumbled across information that implicated David in a local kidnapping/human trafficking ring. David was about to be married and Reed was his best man, putting Reed in an awkward position personally, professionally, and emotionally. Mack and Daria teamed up and used Quinn as a distraction to crash David’s engagement party.
Reed caught Quinn at the party and the two had a moment while Reed tried to pin Quinn down as to her motives for being there. Meanwhile, Daria and Mack kidnapped David and later forced him to confess his involvement in front of Reed.
Reed and Mack agreed to let David go with the understanding that he will help lead them to the guys David delivers the girls to, the ones involved in the selling of the women.
Which about brings us to book two,Dirty Daria. . .
Reed and Mack argue over Quinn’s role in David’s engagement party. Reed doesn’t agree that Quinn should have been involved while Mack maintains that she was safe the entire time and a necessary piece to isolating David at the party.
Meanwhile, Quinn is convinced that after the moment she and Reed shared, they are destined to be together. As Daria drives her home after the party, Quinn tells her she wants to be involved in all the Dirty Darling’s cases. Daria refuses, claiming the time it would take Quinn to catch up training-wise is far too long to be useful.
Daria gets a message to pick up one of her girls, Roxie, after dropping Quinn off. She and Roxie go take out a bad guy that Roxie has been watching for a while. While Roxie takes care of her mark, Daria is surprised by an unexpected guest at the man’s house; forcing her to kill him, leaving an unaccounted-for dead body to dispose of. She calls in a favor from her father, and he takes care of it. Daria worries about the possible backlash from killing the stranger and what her father will want in return.
One of Daria’s other girls, Alyssa—Al for short—digs up more information on David Tremblay, and they discover he may have been involved in Daria’s sister’s murder. Which only heightens Daria’s interest in Tremblay. It is within this latest information that Daria discovers just how horribly abused Katya was while in captivity. And she avows anew to bring Tremblay down.
Meanwhile, we get a little peek into how Mack and Daria first met and how and why they break up. Gotta love those flashback chapters.
Mack and Reed fit Tremblay with a wire and follow him on a “date” who he drugs and kidnaps, then to a residential brothel where he’s handing off the girl. When they arrive, the house is abandoned, leaving Mack and Reed nothing to go on.
The four make it through Tremblay’s wedding, which Quinn is somehow able to crash, and Reed heavily drinks his way through. After which, they use Daria’s family jet to follow Tremblay to Maldives for his honeymoon.
The two-week trip in paradise has Daria recommitting herself to try to make things work with Mack. And Reed turning into an even bigger drunken asshole than at the wedding.
Reed continues his downward spiral upon their return. Soon after, they learn of Tremblay’s murder. Reed, despondent at the news, pays Quinn a late-night visit to make himself feel better, and the two finally consummate their “relationship.”
Daria spies on Andrei, trying to find more information on Katya’s death, only to discover her father at an auction for abducted sex-slaves.
The bureau assigns Mack a new partner after he finds out from the chief that Reed has gone rogue.
Quinn, to lure Reed back from wherever he’s gone, decides to get herself kidnapped by the human traffickers so he can rescue her.
And, here we are . . .
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