Spies in Plain Sight
Available June 3, 2025
Welcome to VIE. A spy organization of the people, by the people, and for the people. We are spies in plain sight. We make billionaires afraid.
A gripping, tense thriller with Junie Lagarde, the hearing-impaired heroine and Leo, her beloved German Shepherd service dog from the thriller The Beautiful Risk (Book 1 in the series).
Junie Lagarde is a woman on a mission. With the help of her young team of citizen journalists, she’s determined to hold billionaires accountable for the environmental atrocities they commit. Their current target: Kentucky billionaire “Daddy” Sullivan Carr, whose plans to open a bitcoin mine in Annecy, France, threaten to destroy the place Junie and her beloved hearing dog Leo now call home.
But locking horns with Daddy Carr plunges Junie into a waking nightmare. For the twisted billionaire has drawn the attention of a dark and lethal French secret society known as the Emerald Vipers – and for this he blames her.
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A Narrow Escape
Escaping only narrowly with her life from an assassination attempt, Junie’s determination to unmask Daddy Carr as a villain only grows stronger.
But as her quest for justice leads her from the masked revels of Annecy’s Venetian carnival to the glittering excesses of the Kentucky Derby, it will take all her strength to find not just the justice she burns for – but to face the shocking truth.
That’s if she manages to stay alive . . .
Espionage Just Got Personal
At the Venetian Carnival in Annecy, France, the notorious Green Vipers sentence billionaire Sullivan Carr to death for ecocide.
But the source of their intel? Junie Lagarde’s open-source intelligence (OSINT) group, VIE. Now, caught between a dangerous billionaire and a lethal secret society, Junie must use all her wits to survive.
The Beautiful Risk
An intelligent, provocative thriller from internationally bestselling author Lynn Hightower
“Gripping, suspenseful read” —Booklist
“Dark and swiftly moving, both a thriller and an examination of how deep a connection can be.” —Kirkus Reviews
The Beautiful Risk is a story of the collateral damage of grief, the adrenaline of revenge; it’s the story of corruption and greed, of ecoterrorism. Above all, it is a romantic thriller, a love story, a tale of courage and of mending a broken heart.
It’s the story of a woman who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth.
Because when you don’t care if you live or die . . . you are always the most dangerous person in the room.
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