Award-winning author Millie Criswell has won a loyal following with her gift for creating unforgettable characters with lots of humor and heart. Now comes her newest confection of a novela story filled with delicious passion and a delirious sense of fun!It might be hard to picture impish Mia DeNero as a bodyguard, but what she lacks in size she makes up for in determination. So when straight-laced Nick Caruso walks into her office and says he needs protection from the mob because of a book hes writing, she doesnt hesitate to take the job. Moving the studious author into her apartment seems like the best way to protect him from shady characters. But soon after hes settled in, the thick, nerdy glasses come off and Mia starts wondering whos going to protect her from this irresistible new client?Posing as a geeky author on the run from the mob is making FBI agent Nick Caruso crazy. But if it will help him shut down a money laundering operation out of Little Italy, he can ignore the wimp jokes for a little while longer. Its harder to ignore the sassy woman he hired to be his bodyguard. There are a number of things hed like Mia to do to his body, and guarding it isnt on the list. As things heat upon the job and in the apartmentNick begins to see hes in danger of losing his heart to the woman hes deceived, and who is determined to save his life. . . .From the Paperback edition.