Deceptive Appearances

Heading for a simple pickup in Stateline, Nevada, Lisa Wycherly was nervous. She and Sid Hackbirn, her partner in Operation Quickline, had been asked to not hide behind their usual aliases, but work as themselves. After all, Lisa's hometown was just across the state line in South Lake Tahoe, and thanks to her good girl reputation in town, odds were good no one would pick her as an undercover counter-espionage operative.

But it was Sid who first ran into an old friend from high school - his teacher and former lover Della Riordan, who was murdered shortly after leaving Sid. Then Lisa found a small box filled with cocaine instead of the coded instructions she'd been expecting from the pickup. Sid got tagged as the main suspect in Riordan's murder, and took full advantage of all the women who threw themselves at him as a result.

With Sid cutting a randy swathe through the female population on both sides of the state line, the last thing Lisa needed was her parents coming home early from a trip. The only thing worse was finding out that her father's store might be at the center of a drug ring, let alone harboring a spy selling secrets to the other side. With a crooked cop bent on setting Sid and Lisa up for the murder and an enemy agent spying on them, keeping their secret from Lisa's family will be almost as hard as staying out of jail.