Spy Notes

Johnny built her career on managing the unmanageable. She never planned on becoming a spy. As publicist to global music icon Naive — a once-in-a-generation superstar mounting the comeback of the century — she's orchestrated every headline, every venue, every carefully managed moment of his world tour.

Then she comes home to Barbados for Christmas. And Winslow disappears.

The official story is grim. The evidence is damning. Johnny refuses to believe any of it — because the quietly brilliant detective who's held a piece of her heart for years, the man she cares for but could never let herself love, didn't just vanish. He was closing in on something: an international drug-trafficking network moving product through the kind of elite circles no one investigates. He went undercover. And now he's gone.

Johnny isn't trained for this. What she has is a worldwide tour, a VIP pass to every exclusive room in Europe, and the bone-deep certainty that the answers are inside the network Winslow was hunting. So she convinces the authorities to let her use the one thing they can't: her access.

Moving through private parties and backstage enclosures, Johnny follows the threads Winslow left behind — keeping a volatile legend from imploding his comeback while every contact could be an asset and every intimate encounter could be a trap. And in London, the danger gets personal: Henley, the airline executive she fell for in Barbados, keeps turning up in the same rooms she does. The man she can't stay away from is the last man she should trust — and she can't tell whether he's her way to the truth or the reason she won't make it home.

The network has reach. And she has to find Winslow before it finds her first.

A sharp, emotionally charged spy thriller with romantic intrigue — featuring a fierce, glamorous Black heroine driven by love, loyalty, and the refusal to leave anyone behind. For fans of Sandra Brown and Lucy Foley, and readers who always wished Olivia Pope had her own thriller series.