If you sense someone’s watching you from afar, or if you feel a shadow other than
your own at your back, I might as well pack it up and call it a day.

It’s a job
that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield
is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the
powerful and corrupt, those who can’t be touched by the law.

Now, after nineteen
years of service, Lily has been drawn into a dangerous game that hasn’t been sanctioned,
seeking vengeance for her own reasons. Each move bolder than the next, she is compromising
her superiors, drawing unwanted attention, and endangering her very life. Though
stress and shock have made her feel somewhat invincible and a little cocky, Lily
knows that she too can be taken out in an instant. And if it’s her time, so be it.
She intends to go down fighting.

A CIA agent himself, Lucas Swain recognizes the
signs of trauma in the line of fire. His orders: either bring her in or bring her
down. Yet he too is drawn into the game with Lily Mansfield, dancing on a tightrope
as he tries to avoid a major international incident while still battling a tenacious
foe who is dogging their every step. Keeping laser focus on the task at hand while
vigilantly watching her back, Mansfield never sees the lethal peril that lies directly
in her path … and how loyalty has a price.

Chock-full of the intrigue, breathless
action, and sensuality that have made Linda Howard the master of romantic suspense,
Kiss Me While I Sleep is a daring thriller of passion, sudden twists, and richly
imagined characters who live and breathe in readers’ hearts. It is the most gripping
and complex novel of Linda Howard’s career.