The Forgetful Spy Remembers
(2026)(The first book in the Nightshade Protocol series)
A novel by Lara Santiago
Previously published as The Forgetful Spy Remembers, Saint James, L. [AUTHOR]
In the world of covert lies, desire is the deadliest trigger.
Melissa Peterson lives a quiet life among dusty bookshelves and small-town routines. Sweet, shy, and sheltered, she’s the last woman undercover operative Drew Clayton should want.
Which makes wanting her impossible to resist.
Before Drew can explore the dangerous attraction simmering between them, he’s deployed on a brutal long-term assignment deep inside a criminal empire where one mistake means death.
Then she appears.
Only she isn’t Melissa anymore.
The woman who walks into the drug lord’s compound calls herself Rachel Miles—bold, seductive, fearless…and completely unrecognizable from the timid librarian Drew can’t forget. When Rachel finds him handcuffed and at the mercy of a sadistic captor, freeing him becomes the beginning of a mission far more dangerous than either expected.
Because Rachel isn’t pretending.
Melissa Peterson has been living a double life she doesn’t even know exists.
Now Drew must uncover the truth behind a covert government program capable of rewriting identities and weaponizing human minds. But the closer he gets to the answers, the harder he falls for both women living inside the same body—the innocent librarian and the sensual spy.
A smarter man would walk away.
Drew Clayton has never been very good at surrender.
The Forgetful Spy Remembers, Nightshade Protocol, book 1
The Relentless Spy Forgets, Nightshade Protocol, book 2
Genre: Romantic Suspense
In the world of covert lies, desire is the deadliest trigger.
Melissa Peterson lives a quiet life among dusty bookshelves and small-town routines. Sweet, shy, and sheltered, she’s the last woman undercover operative Drew Clayton should want.
Which makes wanting her impossible to resist.
Before Drew can explore the dangerous attraction simmering between them, he’s deployed on a brutal long-term assignment deep inside a criminal empire where one mistake means death.
Then she appears.
Only she isn’t Melissa anymore.
The woman who walks into the drug lord’s compound calls herself Rachel Miles—bold, seductive, fearless…and completely unrecognizable from the timid librarian Drew can’t forget. When Rachel finds him handcuffed and at the mercy of a sadistic captor, freeing him becomes the beginning of a mission far more dangerous than either expected.
Because Rachel isn’t pretending.
Melissa Peterson has been living a double life she doesn’t even know exists.
Now Drew must uncover the truth behind a covert government program capable of rewriting identities and weaponizing human minds. But the closer he gets to the answers, the harder he falls for both women living inside the same body—the innocent librarian and the sensual spy.
A smarter man would walk away.
Drew Clayton has never been very good at surrender.
The Forgetful Spy Remembers, Nightshade Protocol, book 1
The Relentless Spy Forgets, Nightshade Protocol, book 2
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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